From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-11-08T03:07:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Daemons written in ruby...

Hugh Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Steve [RubyTalk] wrote:
> 
>> I've written a simple daemon as a ruby script... it writes all
>> interesting 
>        [...]
>> In C I'd have closed stdin, stdout and stderr; dissociate my process
>> from its 
>        [...]
>> What is the best way to achieve this in Ruby?  I can achieve the end
>> result I 
>        [...]
> 
> Thus spake Google: http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/daemonize.html
> 
>        HTH
>        Hugh

There's also http://rubyforge.org/projects/daemons

Seems like this belongs into the std lib, doesn't it?

    robert