Hi, On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:13, Davide Cittaro <davide.cittaro at ifom-ieo-campus.it> wrote: > Ok, another one: the process I would like to start is not a daemon > itself. If I start it with "daemon" function it remains in foreground. > Ok, I can play with '&' but is there a init function to start in > background a process? Use "nohup" and redirect file descriptors to be safe. nohup cmd... </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 & Look up "man nohup" for (a few) more details. HTH, Filipe