On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Evan Moore wrote: > > I am writting a Daemon in c, I need to know how to disconnect the program > from the terminal so that if that terminal is destoyed it will not cause > my server to shutdown. I have done this with perl scripts, but can't not > figure it out with c. Thanks in advance > > Evan. >
man daemon DAEMON(3) Linux Programmer's Manual DAEMON(3) NAME daemon - run in the background SYNOPSIS #include <unistd.h> int daemon (int nochdir, int noclose); DESCRIPTION The daemon() function is for programs wishing to detach themselves from the controlling terminal and run in the background as system daemons. .... that's from potato OK