From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2002-06-14T23:23:02+09:00
Subject: RE: daemon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vivek Nallur [mailto:nvivek@konark.ncst.ernet.in]
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 9:18 AM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: 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'

By daemon, do you simply mean that you want to run it in the background?  If
so, setsid() is the method you want (it's a Kernel method).

Regards,

Dan