Re: To run a binary as a daemon

[John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>]

you may want to run it under nohup or screen...  otherwise, stdout is
going to get a lot of junk, and that means that your active tty gets it if
there's no internal redirection.

On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 shyamk@eth.net wrote:

>If I wish to run a binary (say, AIRC) as a daemon , what should I do ?
>My thoughts are something like:
>   maybe add into /etc/rc.d , a file with an entry like
>              if [-x /path/AIRC]
>              ./path/AIRC  #Execute this
>
>Please offer your views on this . I know I have not thought enough over my own idea.
>
>Thanks,
>(shyamk@eth.net)
>Shyam
>
>"Quality can Never be Quantified . It exists by itself and Quantity might hand it an
>untimely demise if blown out of the very fragile proportions that constitute it ."
>
>
>

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