On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:20:36AM +0100, Pedro Diaz Jimenez wrote: > In order to make a daemon, you've got to fork() and kill the father. Then > you have a child in the background Then, to make it a well-behaved daemon, you make it chdir() to /, and set its stdin, stdout and stderr to /dev/null. Without that, I wouldn't call it a daemon. What is the daemon supposed to do, btw? :) -- Remco Gerlich