[p4] Installing P4d On An Mac OS X Machine

[Michael Amorose]

"&" never seemed to work at all despite that being the only instruction to
use on the Perforce website. After running p4d -h and seeing the options and
playing with them a bit using "-d" seemed to work fine.

Mike

On 11/2/06 12:16 PM, "Ken.Williams at thomson.com" <Ken.Williams at thomson.com>
wrote:

> If you start with '-d', you shouldn't need to background with '&'
> because it'll go into background mode automatically through the magic of
> forks, right?
> 
>  -Ken
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of
>> ralf at gronkowski.de
>> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 6:21 AM
>> To: mamorose at spectorsoft.com; perforce-user at perforce.com
>> Subject: Re: [p4] Installing P4d On An Mac OS X Machine
>> 
>> In ~/.profile you should have:
>> export P4PORT=localhost:1666
>> 
>> Starting then with
>> p4d -d &
>> 
>> works just fine, given p4d is on the path.