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Re: turn script to daemon?



Mike Egglestone <megglestone@heritage.sd57.bc.ca> writes:

> Hello,
> I have downloaded this unique program.
> (its a binary file of some sort that is used as a database)
> Anyway, I can launch it by typing the command
> # ./atrt.linux &
>
> I can run ps ax and see that the program is running.
> but to kill it, I need to run the kill command.
>
> Is there a way to launch this as a daemon so I can turn it off and on?
> Similar to how apache and samba are launched from /etc/init.d ?

man start-stop-daemon

Regards,

Bob
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