Subject: Re: starting a long-lived Lisp process from a short-lived connection
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 02:27:46 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <7q6dndzOgeKf1UPcRVn-sg@speakeasy.net>
GP lisper  <spambait@clouddancer.com> wrote:
+---------------
| <baselnovo@hotmail.com> wrote:
| > I'd like to start a web server (cl-http) process from a remote client
| > so that it keeps running after the client connection is closed.
| 
| detachtty
| seems to be the standard answer to that question
+---------------

I second that! "Detachtty" is great! Unlike "screen"[1], it does not
require a real TTY at startup, thus can readily be run by system
init files at bootup time. See <http://www.cliki.net/detachtty>
for more info.


-Rob

[1] Though newer versions of "screen" might have fixed that. (?)

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