Running the Radar Agent as a Service or Daemon

There are two approaches we recommend to make sure the Radar agent keeps running on your server, in case any failures makes its process stop:

• Use the nohup command to run the agent:

  nohup ./runscope-radar -f radar.conf

• Use the GNU Screen utility.

You can find more information about how to use the GNU Screen utility in the Linux screen Command: Keep Processes Running Despite a Dropped Connection (howtoforge.com) article, and in this Running commands on Putty without fear of losing connection (superuser.com) thread.