On Fri, 24 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] Peter Long wrote: > BTW: I was under the impression that just typing 'mydaemon&' would not work. > I thought that the process would be terminated when I logged off in any > case. Is there some way around that or am I just completely mistaken?
It won't die if you trap the appropriate signals (like SIGHUP, signal 1). SIGHUP is normally used to signal child processes that the user logged off; for daemons it's trapped and is often used to reread the configuartion file. Even if you're not writing a program, you can block SIGHUP with the "nohup" utility... read the man page for nohup (or "pinfo nohup" for the better documentation). I think nohup also "nice's" the background process, which you may or may not want. --Jeremy _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
