Stephane CHAZELAS schrieb:

> 2006-02-19, 15:30(-08), norman@unnu.org: 
>
> What do you mean?
>
> In which way don't you want it to be started as a daemon?
> A daemon is called "daemon" usually by the nature of what it
> does. There's no special way to start a daemon. That's some
> process that runs on the /background/ and whose actions can be
> invoked by other means that terminal interaction.
>
> start-stop-daemon won't do anything special to start the
> program, if you don't use the --background option.
>
> If you use the --background option, it will detach the process
> from the current terminal and its parent process, and have its
> stdin/stdout/stderr point to /dev/null, which is a sensible
> thing to do if that process is running in the background
> independently of any terminal.
>
> So
>
> start-stop-daemon -Sbvmp /var/pid/sleep.pid -x /bin/sleep -- 100
>
> will start sleep in background detached from the terminal.
>
> start-stop-daemon -Svmp /var/pid/sleep.pid -x /bin/sleep -- 100 &
>
> will start sleep as a background job of the current terminal (if
> the shell supports job control). That will be the same as:
>
> /bin/sleep 100 &
>
> except for the handling of the pid file.
>
> This, above is for the start-stop-debian found on debian, I
> guess it's the same for other distribution.
>
> $ start-stop-daemon --version
> start-stop-daemon 1.13.13
> $ start-stop-daemon --help
> start-stop-daemon VERSION for Debian - small and fast C version written by
> Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>, public domain.
> [...]

After reading your post, i realized that it was exactly what i was
looking for. Thank you very much!

Norman

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