Re: [tlug] ssh tunnel in background requires nohup?

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 25/05/07, Al Hoang <hoanga@example.com> wrote:

>     This does not answer my questions why.  And I find screen a poor answer
> when considering this is going to be run like a daemon.  nohup is a better
> option which I am already using.  The tunnel I'm talking about
> IS being setup in an init script that I wrote.

Look at the source code for nohup or the man page for setsid(2).
Therein lies the answer.

The short story is that simply backgrounding a process is not enough;
you must also detach from the session created by your terminal
emulator or, in this case, ssh, when you login to the machine.

-Josh