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> various bad things happening to it when, for example, you logged out (which often would deliver a SIGHUP to it)

And thus, `nohup`.

Quite a few of my self hosted things are spawned using `nohup ./foobar &` and happily run for months at a time.

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Edit: TIL `daemonize`, I have a new go to!

https://software.clapper.org/daemonize/

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I just bang out a quick systemd service and let it do all the lifting

I'll do a system d but a problem is (1) system environment, and (2) machine specs.

To normalize machine specs I will run it in a VM on the cloud.

To normalize system environment I run in docker.

I also like to run on Java for code safety and consistency.

So what I have is a VM (Java) running on a VM (Docker) running a VM, running a VM (cloud compute), running on system D. I don't think it's abstracted enough though so I'm looking to find ways to add more VMs to the equation, so as to ensure consistency. Figure if I add a few more VMs, good luck hacking that!

Would you give a short explanation of how you would try that?

You configure it as a service,

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

A random tutorial,

https://medium.com/@benmorel/creating-a-linux-service-with-s...

Thanks. I’ll look it over

Worth to mention runit - bit bigger thing but still smaller than systemd

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