On 18 Mar 2008, at 10:26, Svoop wrote: > One of the bundle commands is supposed to start mysqld. It's working > so far, > but mysqld does not detach from the process and thus the (Ruby) > script hangs > TM until killed. I've tried all kinds of things [...] You need to close stdout/err e.g. by adding ‘&>/dev/null’ to the command.