js wrote: > nohup would work in some ways, but that's not a real daemon > because the process will have tty, in a session and has a process > group. I like to have a real daemon. Well, it depends on what you're after. Are you solving a problem or are you doing an exercise because you can? If you're solving a problem, and my nohup suggestion isn't sufficient, just write your daemon in C. If it's an exercise, take a look at proc_open(). /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php