Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:14:22 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: sthomas@nerim.net Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Background process Message-ID: <45F0A6DE.4090604@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <52267.194.69.32.50.1173359004.squirrel@webmail.nerim.net> References: <52267.194.69.32.50.1173359004.squirrel@webmail.nerim.net>
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sthomas@nerim.net wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I connect to my freebsd box via ssh using putty from a WindowsXP
> workstation, I want to run a process on the freebsd box, then close my ssh
> session (closing putty) while keeping the process running.
>
> So I run my process like this : # myprogram &, then I exit the shell.
screen is serious overkill in this scenario, although it's advocates
tend to see it as the solution for every problem. :)
No one has offered what I think is the most sensible option, which is
to check the documentation for your program to see if it has a command
line option to background itself properly. I'm not familiar with
moinmoin, but I have a hard time believing that it doesn't have this
capability.
Failing that, if you need to preserve anything that is emitted from
the program, nohup is probably your best bet. If it isn't going to
spit anything out on the terminal, take a look at daemon(8), which you
probably will want to run with the -f option.
Good luck,
Doug
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