Charles Swiger wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> 
>>>>     [1]   Terminated              sleep 30 >/dev/null 2>&1
>>>
>>>
>>> man nohup
>>
>>
>> Hmm, I don't think this helps...
>>
>> $ nohup sleep 30 >/dev/null 2>&1 &
>> [1] 17842
>> $ kill $! >/dev/null 2>&1
>> [1] + Terminated           nohup sleep 30 > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> 
> Follow the nohup by a "disown %1", which will remove the task from  
> interacting with your shell.  Of course, either your shell needs to  
> support the disown functionality, or the task you run needs to have  the 
> capability.  Otherwise consider:
> 
>     /usr/sbin/daemon echo "yeah" 2>&1 > /dev/null
> 
> You could also hunt down DJB's daemontools, which have similar  
> intentions...
> 

Hi,

I'm just curious how it's possible that you have the /usr/sbin/daemon on 
your NetBSD. I can't find it on NetBSD 2.0.2, 2.1, 3.0 and current but 
yes, there is one on the FreeBSD 5.4 here ... :)

Regards,

r.