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Understanding when background process gets terminated
I have a script which starts a number of background processes and if works fine when called from the cmdline.
However the same script is also called during my xsession startup and additionally on ...
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What's the difference between running a program as a daemon and forking it into background with '&'?
What are the practical differences from a sysadmin point of view when deploying services on a unix based system?