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Re: starting process in background



Quoth aphro, 
> whats the best way?  im running a icecast server and wanna set it to start
> on boot..
> 
> what i got goin is..
> 
> su icecast -c /usr/local/icecast/bin/icecast >/dev/null &

Have you tried nohup? I tend to find that it works pretty well, and
creates a handy nohup.out file, containg all the output.

cheers,

damon
 

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