[lug] linux process supervision

[Carl.Wagner at Level3.com]

Doesn't nohup just prevent the process from dying when its parent process dies
(like loging out or "hanging up").  I believe nohup stands for "no hang up".

Carl.

"D. Stimits" wrote:
> 
> "Ferdinand P. Schmid" wrote:
> >
> > HI,
> > I wrote some scripts and a C++ application for one of my systems that I
> > would like to keep running at all times.  During my tests for running these
> > processes in the background I found that for some reason they sometimes go
> > away (crash or die).  So here is my question:
> >
> > Services that are started out of inetd are watched out for by inetd (same
> > thing for tcpserver).  So if they crash or die inetd restarts them
> > immediately.  Is there a facility in Linux that I could use to take care of
> > my own basic processes that are note internet related?  I would of course
> > like to do this in a way that is not considered bad style - if there is
> > such a thing.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ferdinand
> >
> 
> Someone else already mentioned respawn. You will probably also be
> interested in "nohup". Some shells have their own built-in of this, but
> there is also a literal command nohup.
> 
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