On 2016-05-31 15:12, Allan Odgaard wrote: > You need to also close stdout/err, example: > > pid = fork do > STDOUT.reopen(open('/dev/null', 'w')) > STDERR.reopen(open('/dev/null', 'w')) > > sleep 5 > end > Process.detach(pid) Ah, that worked. Thanks. -- /Jacob Carlborg