Background a process (programatically)

podollb · 05-12-2004, 02:31 PM

Hi,
I was wondering if there was a way I could get my application to background itself when it starts without having the user have to manually do it? Is this usually done with a wrapper script that is called in the real applications place with the "&"?

vireshwali · 11-03-2005, 06:28 AM

just create a siple shell script where you start the app in background

e.g: i want to run firefox in background. Following shell script is what i wil write
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#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/firefox&
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chmod 755 the shell script and u are ready to start.

shell script can be made better depending on your needs. If you are familiar with shell scripting have a look at /etc/rc.d/init.d/http or /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd which ever is with your distro