daemon query

[Paul Brown]

Hi all,

a relatively simple question:

I am just about fnished writing a daemon, and would like to know how i
can make the program fork into
the background automatically..

ie, instead of this:

#> ./daemon &
#>

i would like this:

#> ./daemon
#>

Although it is written in perl i am sure the theory is the same...

thanks for any help you have to offer

cheers
paul