Daemon

How do I make a script run as a deamon in ruby? I’m trying to create a
variation on fetchmail and hence I want it to run in daemon mode, when
invoked by root or so ‘optioned’

regs
Vivek

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How do I make a script run as a deamon in ruby? I’m trying to create a
variation on fetchmail and hence I want it to run in daemon mode, when
invoked by root or so ‘optioned’

Here’s one way:

def startDaemon
if (child_pid = fork)
#I’m the parent. Do whatever a parent might do, such as store the
#PID in a file or report it to STDOUT so that something else can
#capture the info and store it.
puts “PID #{child_pid}”
exit
end

#Now, I am the child. I want to be free of my parent.
Process.setsid
end

Call startDaemon(), and when it returns, it will be the daemonized child
process that returns.

Kirk Haines

Many thanks.

regs
Vivek

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On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Kirk Haines wrote:

How do I make a script run as a deamon in ruby? I’m trying to create a
variation on fetchmail and hence I want it to run in daemon mode, when
invoked by root or so ‘optioned’

Here’s one way:

def startDaemon
if (child_pid = fork)
#I’m the parent. Do whatever a parent might do, such as store the
#PID in a file or report it to STDOUT so that something else can
#capture the info and store it.
puts “PID #{child_pid}”
exit
end

#Now, I am the child. I want to be free of my parent.
Process.setsid
end

Call startDaemon(), and when it returns, it will be the daemonized child
process that returns.

Kirk Haines

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