Sterling, Gregory, Brandon and David thanks for your suggestions. On 6 March 2011 05:38, David Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > I humbly recommend doing such daemonizations from outside your program. > Programs that daemonize on startup make it very difficult to monitor them by > direct means, instead forcing you to rely on PID files and other mechanisms > which may not always be available or fresh.
Agreed, I already noticed that debugging is a bit harder since I have no stdout and stderr anymore. > For reference, Upstart, the new PID 1 on Ubuntu and friends, has a horrible > hack[1] built in specifically to keep track of processes that "helpfully" > daemonize themselves, so that it can offer additional services like > restarting crashed services or notifying the owner of a problem. > As has been pointed out elsewhere on thread, there are plenty of standalone > programs that implement daemonization if you end up not using service > management software to do it for you. I plan to run the daemon on a Ubuntu server. Do you know if Upstart is able to daemonize a process? Regards, Bas _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
