Try 'man daemon' :)

On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Roger Brown wrote:

> I have a daemon process that I have been testing by spawning from a command
> line using
> the '&' operator,..
> 
> eg...
> 
> mydaemon   &
> 
> This runs fine in the background for a day or so then terminates with a line
> saying something
> like "Alarm clock".
> 
> Is this the shell doing this? (I believe it is 'ksh'), if so, how do I stop
> it?
> 
> Do I have to code the thing to detach itself from the controlling terminal?
> (It's nice to get error messages on the system consol without locking it
> out).
> 
> NetBSD 1.4.1
> 
> Regards
> 
> Roger
>