Linux Services

[HugoFromBOSS]

Hello,

I am writing a service for Linux I have written all the code. Here's what’s wrong I hope you can help. When the service runs it checks several things, this need to be visible to the user. Afterward it listens on a port and because its listening it stop and doesn’t return the user to the shell it just carries on waiting. This is a problem when the server start as is obviously doesn’t complete the setup it stops and waits for the program to finish listening which it doesn’t. How can I get around this? I have tried "> /dev/null" it does work but hides all of the information to the user.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[jabbah]

maybe

yourservice &

is what your looking for?

or rather

nohup yourservice &

[HugoFromBOSS]

When I use "nohup" it still waits instead of quiting.

[HugoFromBOSS]

Also, question how do I create a pidfile when my app runs?

[jabbah]

When I use "nohup" it still waits instead of quiting.

from what I understood you dont want it to quit, do you?

putting an ampersand & at the end of the command line will make the process go to the background.

e.g.

sleep 3 &
will go to the background and you have 3 seconds to do ps to see that the process is running.

I dont remember precisely what nohup does but its got something to do with stop listening to signals, anyways man nohup will tell you.
and while youre at, you may want to look at man fg and man bg

[HugoFromBOSS]

Perfect thanks! It was & then sleep 3 :)