making daemons

i want to set up a half life cs server and i was wondering if it is possible to make run as a daemon. i ve set up a server before but i dont like the idea of it taking up on of my terminals. and how would u do this for any service that wasnt already a daemon

You can put a program into the background by starting it with a '&':

Code:

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someprog -argslist &

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If you want it to keep running when you logout, use nohup.

Code:

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nohup someprog -argslist &

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cool thanks for the reply.
wehre can i find out more about making programs run in the background. just so i know more of whats going on. :D