.TH daemonize 1 "November 2010" "ngtx"
.SH NAME
daemonize \- make a prog a daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B daemonize
/path/to/prog [args]
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.B daemonizep
/path/to/prog [args]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Make a prog, shell- or other script a daemon.  The new daemon will be a
session leader with umask of 027, "/" as directory and standard file
descriptors closed.
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.B daemonizep
differs from
.B daemonize
by printing the PID of the daemonized prog.
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To avoid unnecessary library dependencies the binary was created with
dietlibc (or nasm on daemonize and i386 arch).
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
The return value is 1 if forking failed otherwise 0.
.SH EXAMPLES
daemonize /tmp/loadlogger.py
.SH CAVEATS
Only the standard file descriptors for
stdin, stdout and stderrr (0,1,2) are closed.
.SH AUTHOR
Frank Bergmann, http://www.tuxad.com