RE: Running stuff in the background from the command line

["Angel Gabriel" <badmangabriel lycos co uk>]

How would I deamonise the quake server?

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[mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Tony Dietrich
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 6:50 AM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Running stuff in the background from the command line


Have you thought about daemonising the quake server?

The a standard rc.d script could be used to start/stop etc. the quake
server

TD

On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 19:31, Angel Gabriel wrote:
> I have set up a quake server, and all seems to be running well. However,
I'm
> not going to commit a whole monitor, and keyboard to this base unit with
has
> nothing on it, except the apps neccessary to run my quake server
>
> Running the server from the command line is fine.... ./qwsv and it all
runs
> handy dandy
> Running the server from an SSH session from another machine... same all
runs
> fine
> But that would mean tying up another machine to maintain the connection
> When I run the command ./qwsv & , in an attempt to get it to run in the
> background.... it bombs out on me. crashes after a few seconds. It gets a
> job number, then crashes. Starting it again is no help, because the ports
it
> uses get tied up, only a reboot with solve the problem. How can I get
> something like this to run in the background without crashing?
>
>
>
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