How to make a backround progress run

Meatball1337 · 10-09-2004, 10:37 AM

I am using puTTy to accesss my linux slackware 10.0 server and I need to know how to make a process run in the backround cause everytime i close the session on puTTy the process stop

mdg · 10-09-2004, 10:48 AM

Putting an ampersand after the command sends it to the background eg

Code:

gkrellm &

jjjjjavi · 10-09-2004, 02:04 PM

What you want is not only to send to the background with an &.

What you should do is:

nohup program_name &

utopicdog · 10-09-2004, 02:09 PM

in fact you need to know how to make a process run as a deamon, because logging out will still kill the background process.

what I do is launch a script at startup which continually checks for the existence of a file eg. /home/me/signal then sleeps for 1 second. if the file is there it launches another script. creating the file eg. touch /home/me/signal, launches the action. email me if you want more details, or read the bash manpage for more on how to write a script.