You called it on the nose - I was thinking I could rely on screen, and that
when it closed, everything it ran closed. I will adopt dtach, thanks.
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Aaron Bull Schaefer
<[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Jim mack <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Newbie question: I have been using screen to start factor listener. Is
> > there any way a factor listener could keep going, and yet not show as a
> > detached screen? I had assumed not, so had been relying on the presence
> of
> > a screen running factor as my test of factor already running. Now maybe
> > I'll learn how to use ps better. :)
>
>
> Are you saying that "ps u | grep factor" isn't showing your actual
> factor process? It should be there, even if it was run under screen
> and subsequently detached. On my Linux machine, I alias factor to
> "dtach -n /tmp/factor.sock factor". It's a similar solution to just
> using screen, but dtach has a slightly different use case [1]. The
> main advantage dtach has over just backgrounding the process with
> "factor &" is that it won't be tied to your terminal session.
>
> [1] http://dtach.sourceforge.net/
>
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