Re: rc.d and non daemon servers

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:57 PM, David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:39:54AM -0500, matthew sporleder wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost> 
>> wrote:
>> > Steven M. Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote:
>> >
>> >> > Shall I start it with nohup /usr/local/bin/foo & ?
>> >> > Or is there a nicer alternative?
>> >> >
>> >> I've always used &.
>> >
>> > But if you start it from the shell (a la /etc/rc.d/foo start), it will
>> > exit when you leave your shell...
>> >
>>
>> I actually like the nohup option when combined with something like 
>> rotatelogs.
>> (cd mydir; nohup ./foo.sh 2>&1 | rotatelogs logs/foo.out.%Y%m%d 86400 &)
>
> nohup isn't enough, the process also needs to lose its controlling
> terminal.
>

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