From: realnc@arcor.de   
      
   Hello group.   
      
   What's the best way to start a server program that runs in the   
   background at system boot from a normal (non-root) user account on our   
   Gentoo server?   
      
   Right now, my crontab looks like this:   
      
      MAILTO=""   
      @reboot foo -d   
      @reboot bar   
      
   Couple of notes: "foo" supports the -d option which means "run as   
   daemon" (ventrilo_srv for example has this).  "bar" does not support   
   such option.  If I would want to start it by hand from the shell, I   
   would probably do:   
      
      bar &   
      
   or:   
      
      screen bar   
      
   (and then detach).   
      
   What's the best way to start those with cron, and are there any   
   implications?  Is it better to use "&" in the crontab?   
      
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