daemon directive. what does it do?

[gerald]

Hi, I was just wondering if maybe somebody could answer this for me, as I haven't been able to find any reference to it yet.<br><br>In startup scripts on Linux there is something like<br>'daemon httpd'<br><br>I was wanting to know exactly what the 'daemon' directive does as opposed to just running the httpd executable, if anything.<br><br>Thanks in advance for any light you could shed on this for me.<br><br><br>Gerald

 

[AndyBo]

If you look a little earlier on in the startup scripts you will see something like:<br><FONT FACE=monospace><br>. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions<br></font><br>This is a file that contains common environment variables and shell functions.&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;daemon&quot; is a shell function defined in this file.&nbsp;&nbsp;The function just runs various commands to start the named program up as a &quot;daemon&quot; program.<br><br>Hope this helps. <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>--<br>
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[gerald]

Thank you, that was very helpful....<br><br>-Gerald<br>