Re: daemon without pcntl_fork

Lars Torben Wilson wrote: > Again, that's not a daemon. If it is sufficient to run a background > process then that's fine, but that doesn't make it a daemon (although > it shares some things in common with a daemon). The background process > still has a controlling terminal (even if input and output have been > redirected), and a fully-implemented daemon will typically perform > other tasks which make it a good system citizen, such as: becoming > session leader, chroot'ing to / so that the filesystem it was started > from can be unmounted if necessary, and so on. Torben, you're really just splitting hairs - the OP didn't ask for the definition of "daemon', he just wanted a script to run continually as if it was a daemon. Besides, I did also suggest using either setsid or openSUSEs startproc. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (28.5°C)