launching background process in capistrano task

Question

capistrano task

namespace :service do
  desc \"start daemontools (svscan/supervise/svscanboot)\"
  task :start, :roles => :app do
    sudo \"svscanboot&a         


        

Answer 1

I think nohup just launches the process in background, so you don't need to explicitly set the last &.

Did you try

run "nohup svscanboot >/tmp/svscanboot.log 2>&1"

(without the ending & to send it to the background).

That should work and remain running when your current capistrano session is closed.