setsid not found on freebsd

[Ashish Mahamuni]

Thanks for the reply !!

Garrett,
Its a command available in Linux distros.

Peter,
I am not able to find "util-linux-ng" under my ports.

Anyways, I have found something called "detach", which eventually worked for
me.

--Ashish

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:32:21AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I believe that the original poster is referring to the setsid(1) command
> available in at least some Linux distributions; it's distributed as part
> of the util-linux-ng package and it basically does a fork(), setsid()
> and execve() to run a user-specified command as a session group leader
> in the style of daemon(8) (but without detaching or daemonizing :)
>
> I think it might not be too hard to implement it under FreeBSD.
>
> G'luck,
> Peter
>
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