[Gllug] Starting a daemon

[John G Walker]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:09:47 +0000 Andy Millar <andy at andymillar.co.uk>
wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 14:01 +0000, Lucian wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:40 PM, t.clarke <tim at seacon.co.uk> wrote:
> > `setsid program` might work as well.  
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> cd /
> /path/to/program </dev/null >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
> disown

Thanks for the quote from the disown manual. I still can't work out,
however, the difference between what you've suggested here and thye use
of setsid. Nor do i understand what disown would achieve (which is
perhaps the word I should have used) if I've used nohup.

Sorry if I'm being a bit dense,

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 All the best,
 John
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