Re: How to properly daemonize?

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 06:25:32PM +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote:
> And:
> -- is there a way to detach in a shell script?

This has worked reasonably well for me:

cd /
exec < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1
main &
# create pidfile here
exit 0

Dave

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