Writing a simple linux daemon type thing...

[Michael Hudson]

"Jones" <jones at jones.jones> writes:

> Thank you for you reply.  Just one more question.  Doing what you suggest
> was my first thought.  But I thought I read somewhere last night that using
> "&" was not a good idea..... I have no idea why (it sounds good to me), but
> I guess I just want to understand the difference between running it as a
> "daemon" and just running it the background... if there is one.

If you run it as a true daemon, you need to be careful about writing
to stdout/stderr (because they're not there any more).  Think
tracebacks.

Cheers,
M.

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