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nohup just runs a process that will ignore SIGHUP. systemd can also run processes that ignore SIGHUP. But systemd does a lot of things that nohup doesn't do. P
by fnord123 10y ago
nohup just runs a process that will ignore SIGHUP.
systemd can also run processes that ignore SIGHUP. But systemd does a lot of things that nohup doesn't do. Please don't attempt to use nohup as a daemon management system for anything but the noddiest of tasks.
If you're going to use anything, you're probably best choosing from this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system_service_management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system_service_manag...
- JdeBP 10y ago... which misses out quite a lot, from s6 through perp to initng.