background processes close down on exit?

Hi,

Run the programs as a daemon

command &

Adding the & to the end starts the process as a daemon.

Adam

Starting with & at the end normally just puts the program in the background imidiatley. Depending on the shell, the program will most likely still be closed on exit. What you really want to do is combine this with nohup.

ala: nohup startupscript.csh &

This will start it in the background and prevent it from exiting on logout. Starting as above it will append any output to STDOUT/STDERR to a file nohup.out in the current directory. Check the nohup man page for more info.

@Griswald:

There are usually two processes. The mud process, and a "startup" csh script.

You may want to read …

Mandrake Generic Startup Init Script

http://opencurve.org/~sunny/mandrake/ge … -init.html">http://opencurve.org/~sunny/mandrake/generic-startup-init.html

Highly helpful and easy to read.

Bill Clinton