RE: [Expectperl-discuss] My tty drama

[Blackstone, J. D. <jda...@ci...>]

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> Behalf Of Peter Eisch
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 12:53 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Expectperl-discuss] My tty drama
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> 
> It appears that last last week I became a bit overzealous in 
> my desire to be done with the project, so I'm back to it again.
> 
> OS: RH7.3
> Process gets started from an init.d script which uses the 
> daemon() found in the init.d/functions to run as non-priv'd 
> user. The first thing my parent does is typical W Richard Stevens:
>     close(STDIN);
>     close(STDOUT);
>     close(STDERR);
>     POSIX::setsid();
>     chdir("/");
>     ...

  As an aside, there's a module out there to do all that for you, if you
like.  I believe it's called Proc::Daemon.

jdb