Screen runs it under a terminal, while -nc actually backgrounds it as a daemon (just like apachemysql sshd etc). Both'll get it running but I'd prefer it as a daemon personally.<div><br></div><div>The -nc option lets you start it from an init.d (there are examples in the git repository) script - so you can have it start on startup and have a tool like monit monitor and restart it if it crashes for any reason.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There's no reason you'd need to run it under screen (or its alternatives) anyway. There are several modules for logging to a logfile (mod_logfile mod_syslog), and mod_event_socket + fs_cli (or other ESL clients) lets you connect to a running process to control or monitor it, and with the /log command view the log entries at any time. I've also seen screen sessions crash occasionally which has a chance of taking freeswitch out...</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Steve</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 June 2013 09:42, Alex Lake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alex@digitalmail.com" target="_blank">alex@digitalmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">What's the difference between running freeswitch using the Linux<br>
"screen" command compared to running it with the -nc flag? They seem to<br>
achieve similar goals. Obviously, you can't re-attach to the -nc<br>
version, but are there any intrinsic advantages of one over the other?<br>
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