setsid not found on freebsd

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Mon Feb 14 08:32:22 UTC 2011


On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Ashish Mahamuni
<mahamuni.ashish at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using FreeBSD 8.1.
> I am doing some automation stuff and running shell scripts remotely using
> setsid command.
>
> It seems that I do not have setsid on my system. Also, searched in
> /usr/ports for installation but no luck.
>
> Could you please tell me the way to install this command or may be the
> alternative?

    It's a syscall, not an administrative command. How were you
accessing it before?
Thanks,
-Garrett


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