Re: Running emacs deamon outside login

[Steve Revilak]

> > 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?".

> From: tomas@tuxteam.de

> 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

Fair enough.

I had interpreted the OP's remark

  OP> On Linux, I've been wondering whether there's a good way to run
  OP> emacs deamon outside of my login process, so that I can log out
  OP> and in again and connect to the same emacs deamon process

As "emacs --daemon won't outlive my login process", but perhaps that
was the wrong interpretation.

Steve

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