start a background process with nohup using fabric

Question

am trying to start a celerycam process using fabric using the below nohup command. Unfortunately, nothing is happening, manually using the same command i could start the pro

Answer 1

I'm using Erich Heine's suggestion to use 'dtach' and it's working pretty well for me:

def runbg(cmd, sockname="dtach"):
    return run('dtach -n `mktemp -u /tmp/%s.XXXX` %s' % (sockname, cmd))

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