Re: auto restarting in crontab

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Greg Wooledge (12023-03-16):
> That assumes you want to detach the process from its session in the
> first place.  It's NOT what you should do when running a managed
> service, though.
> 
> With a managed service, you don't want ANY of the old legacy "I want
> to run a daemon from an interactive shell and have it automatically
> separate itself from the interactive session" rubbish.

Indeed. But in the rare cases you want that rubbish, DO NOT USE nuhup.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George