Thanks for your answer. Let's wait for other comments on it... Btw, would it make sense to have a "full" daemonization command in util-linux (like this one http://software.clapper.org/daemonize/) ? There is one in FreeBSD (daemon), and a daemon function also exists in glibc. Thanks, Damien -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html