Re: Running emacs deamon outside login

[tomas]

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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 02:38:51PM -0500, Steve Revilak wrote:
>> Subject: Re: Running emacs deamon outside login
>
> srevilak>     nohup emacs --daemon </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1  &

[...]

> I simply answered the more general question: "how do I keep a unix
> process alive after I log out?".

It was instructive, yes, but note that processes designed to become a
daemon just do this nohup trickery (aka "detaching from the controlling
terminal") themselves. Emacs does, when started with the --daemon option.

In general it is better to do the last (whenever the program provides
such an option) since the program may want to do special things when run
in daemon mode (in Emacs, for example, there is the Lisp function
`daemonp', so you might take decisions in your .emacs initialization
file based on that).

Regards
- -- tomás

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