> On Fri, 24 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] Peter Long wrote: > >> BTW: I was under the impression that just typing 'mydaemon&' would not >> work. I thought that the process would be terminated when I logged off >> in any case. Is there some way around that or am I just completely >> mistaken? > > It won't die if you trap the appropriate signals (like SIGHUP, signal > 1). SIGHUP is normally used to signal child processes that the user > logged off; for daemons it's trapped and is often used to reread the > configuartion file. > > Even if you're not writing a program, you can block SIGHUP with the > "nohup" utility... read the man page for nohup (or "pinfo nohup" for > the better documentation). I think nohup also "nice's" the background > process, which you may or may not want. > > --Jeremy
I assume trapping SIGHUP will work on any form on unix machine. The application that I am writing has to work on Win2K, AIX and Linux. Making a win2k service I can do. Hopefully daemons are implemented the same on both AIX and Linux. :) -- Peter Long mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
