Best way to daemonize Java application on Linux

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Published on 2010-04-27T20:14:27Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 20:33 UTC
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Hi.

While I found this question being answered here on SW several times, I didn't find a concluding answer what is the best approach.

I'm not looking to use any external wrapper, as I found them launching the java process under a nice level lower then themselves which potentially lowers the performance, so it seems only the shell methods are left.

I so far found 3 different shell methods:

start-stop-daemon
RedHat daemon init.d function
nohup on start / disown after start

What you people are using, and can recommend as the most reliable method?

Thanks.

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