Dr Andrew Scott G7VAV

MBCS, MIET, Member ACM, Member IEEE

Senior Lecturer
School of Computing
and Communications

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Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4WA
United Kingdom

SETSID

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: November 1993
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setsid - run a program in a new session

setsid program [arg...]

setsid runs a program in a new session.

The setsid command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

for client (none)

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