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

As I have experimented, the solution is a combination of two factors:

• run process as a daemon: nohup ./command &> /dev/null &
• use pty=False for fabric run

So, your function should look like this:

def background_run(command):
    command = 'nohup %s &> /dev/null &' % command
    run(command, pty=False)

And you can launch it with:

execute(background_run, your_command)