daemonizer is a tool that starts a process while detaching it from the terminal. It makes the given process an orphan, closes all files descriptors, and reopens standard input and output to a log file. This allows you to run any program as a daemon.
| Licenses | Apache 2.0 |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
| Translations | English |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release adds a -p/--pid command line option to specify where to write the PID of the daemon.


Release Notes: The environment variables are now safely cleared before executing the deamon (--keep-environment can be used to override the default behavior). A bug that caused the daemon to be executed before being adopted by init was fixed.


No changes have been submitted for this release.