Re: rc.d and non daemon servers

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:29:01PM +0100, Emmanuel Dreyfus 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...

Eh? Not if you have standards-compliant process groups...

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David A. Holland
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