Unable to detach child process

[Jonathan <jof@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am having problems with a web application which is used to stop and 
start 2 system services. If these are started from httpd then when httpd 
is killed the system services also die - not what I expect or want.

I am using apache 2.0.52 running on RedHat linux.

The web application runs some ruby cgi code which in turn runs a script 
file containing:

  #!/bin/bash

  sudo /etc/init.d/simacqdriver $1 &> /dev/null

The simacqdriver file is a standard startup script which runs a java 
program.

The running process shows up as:

  pid       ppid    user
  20472     1       root

The process is not owned by any of the httpd processes so I do not 
understand why it is connected to httpd stopping.

Any advice gratefully received.

Jonathan

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