.\" Rick Sladkey .\" In the public domain. .\" Path modifications by faith@cs.unc.edu .TH SETSID 1 "20 November 1993" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME setsid \- run a program in a new session .SH SYNOPSIS .BI setsid " program" " [ " "arg ..." " ]" .SH DESCRIPTION .B setsid runs a program in a new session. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR setsid (2) .SH AUTHOR Rick Sladkey .SH 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/.