8 Jun
2017
8 Jun
'17
noon
On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 11:32:10AM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
Is there an easy was to launch a process with sudo and send it into the background?
$ sudo myapp & .. will go straight into the background then stop, waiting for a password to be entered. So I have to bring it back to the foreground (fg), enter the password, stop it (ctrl-z) then send it back into the background (bg).
Of-course what normally happens is that I don't realise it's stopped at all, only to come back several hours after a long process should have been running to find it hasn't yet started....
I'm sure there's a better way?
If you haven't got lots of jobs under job control you could do:-
sudo myapp && bg
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Chris Green