On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 14:51, Tavin Cole wrote: > what is the advantage of self-daemonizing programs over solutions like > nohup and daemontools?
First of all, thank you for pointing out daemontools. I guess daemontools takes care of daemonization. Most of the Linux distributions I have worked with, e.g., RedHat, Mandrake, for some reason does not include daemontools. My understanding is that the convention for rc scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d is to have the daemons daemonize themselves. > i often find them to be a royal PITA when you > actually want to run them under daemontools and they don't provide a > command-line switch to disable detaching.. Good point. I shall include such a command-line switch. :-) Thanks again. Pete
