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setsid(1) - Linux man page
Name
setsid - run a program in a new session
Synopsis
setsid
program
[
arg
...]
Description
setsid
runs a program in a new session.
See Also
setsid
(2)
Author
Rick Sladkey <
jrs@world.std.com
>
Availability
The setsid command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/
.