easy way to create a daemon

[Jon M. Hanson]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 01:59:59PM -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   Is there an easy way to create a daemon without creating an init.d
> script, etc.?  My needs are pretty modest, the process just needs to
> persist after logout.  I can kill it manually when need be.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   jmz
> 

Try running you program with nohup. It will persist even after the shell
you started it in exits (like when you logout).