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Asked: 2026-05-14T15:11:11+00:00

While I found this question being answered here on SW several times, I didn’t

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While I found this question being answered here on SW several times, I didn’t find a concluding answer what is the best approach.

I’m not looking to use any external wrapper, as I found them launching the java process under a nice level lower then themselves which potentially lowers the performance, so it seems only the shell methods are left.

I so far found 3 different shell methods:

  • start-stop-daemon
  • RedHat daemon init.d function
  • nohup on start / disown after start

What you people are using, and can recommend as the most reliable method?

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    While the standard answer to this seems to be jsvc, I have been using djb’s daemon tools to be a great way to make anything into a daemon.

    I have java, python and a few shell scripts all running as daemons, with a simple way to start/stop them and great logging.

    I’ve used to run daemontools itself as root on initctl as originally designed, but after a few months I decided to run it manually, under a normal user, and using svscan-start for nicer logging.

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