On 21 Nov 2005, at 17:47, Jay Blanchard wrote:
It would have been nice to see your command line. Add '&' i.e.
You don't need to do that - the forking script will start, spawn a child process then exit, so adding & will do nothing. Having said that, you could achieve something similar by not forking and using nohup (look it up with man) with &, however, that will mean it runs as you, whereas a forked process can easily switch users and drop privileges for increased security.
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