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the fact that you wrote it isn't the issue, all software was written by someone. if you start this program(s) at the prompt then the '&' will push it to the background.
but surely there is a way to do this properly, in code, rather than a fairly nasty command line adaption. Most daemon programs do return to the background once they've set themselves up, such as fetchmail, which runs it's initial check, and then threads into the background.
kewpie - i use this to deprioritize any process i don't want to hog the cpu - i think this might be what you were referring to. the higher the number the priority is set to, the less cpu it uses.
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