How to make executable run as deamon ?

**ktheking** · 09-14-2003, 04:24 PM

Purpose is to let a bash script run in the background.
Any ideas anyone ?
Thanks already ...

**ktheking** · 09-14-2003, 04:54 PM

Ok got it ....

put & right after the command.

ex. ls&

preventing it stop when logging off you have to use 'nohup'

ex. nohup ls&

**Dave_Bechtel** · 09-15-2003, 05:25 AM

--Actually you can ' disown %1 ' or whatever the job # is instead. (This comes in very handy if you wanted unattended operation but forgot the nohup.

) It's a bash internal command: (man bash)

Code:

disown [-ar] [-h] [jobspec ...]
              Without  options,  each  jobspec  is  removed  from the table of
              active jobs.  If the -h option is given,  each  jobspec  is  not
              removed from the table, but is marked so that SIGHUP is not sent
              to the job if the shell receives a SIGHUP.   If  no  jobspec  is
              present,  and  neither the -a nor the -r option is supplied, the
              current job is used.  If no jobspec is supplied, the  -a  option
              means  to  remove or mark all jobs; the -r option without a job-
              spec argument restricts operation to running jobs.   The  return
              value is 0 unless a jobspec does not specify a valid job.

Originally Posted by ktheking

Ok got it ....

put & right after the command.

ex. ls&

preventing it stop when logging off you have to use 'nohup'

ex. nohup ls&

**aay** · 09-15-2003, 11:11 PM

Another option is to use ctrl+z to put the process on hold and then "bg" to send it to the background. If you want to bring it back for some reason just use "fg" - foreground.