On 27 January 2011 21:35, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne at ca.afilias.info> wrote:
> Erm, slon is logically a daemon, so it's *like* those programs that
> detach themselves.  And yes, it's supposed to run independently, because
> it's not much good if it stops replicating when you log out :-).

<snip>

> On Linux, there are several ways to have a "service" wrapped around it:

I find daemontools works well.

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

Don't mind the author. It's packaged for several distributions and
provides a nice way to manage daemons in general but slon in
particular is well suited.

Have a nice day,
-- 
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