[ILUG] Background Jobs

[David Neary]

"John P . Looney" wrote:
> 
>  You can't really. It relies on the fact that the parent of the job is
> "nohup" which is setp to ignore "HUP" signals. Unless the shell were
> written that you could tell it to "ignore HUPs yourself", it's not
> feasible..

I'm just wondering how it's done when you run a daemon, like say an
oracle or postgres server, or (ahem) informix for that matter. In that
case, you're running an app which gets init as it's ppid, and it can
still be shut down, but not by logging out of a shell.

> Kate

Cheers,
Dave.