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Bug#385887: ITP: daemonize -- run a command as a Unix daemon



On Sep 03, Stanley Jaddoe <stanley@sigterm.demon.nl> wrote:

> Most programs that are designed to be run as daemons do that work for
> themselves. However, you?ll occasionally run across one that does not. When you
> must run a daemon program that does not properly make itself into a true Unix
> daemon, you can use daemonize to force it to run as a true daemon.
What about using "nohup program &" instead?
Or one of the other methods suggested. I do not see the point of
packaging yet another tiny NIH-style I-did-not-RTFM tool.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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