Creating Daemons: Best Practice?

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From: Herr Fieldmarshall
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:00

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Hello,

I've created a program that runs as a daemon, but my question now is, what 
is the best practice concerning distributing and installing it.

The executable needs access to some config file, and some other data files. 
I assume it's best practice to place the executable in /usr/local/bin and 
all the rest in /usr/local/etc. My question now is, how can I assure that 
the executable will always find the config file? (I don't like hard-coding 
../etc/configfile.conf).

I've also read that it is for security reasons best to use chroot to run the 
deamon, but how do I do this in such a way that my data and config files 
remain accessible?

My last point is how do I get the daemon neatly installed in init.d ? Is 
there some script for it?



Briefly said, my question is: I've created a daemon application, but what 
now?


Greetz,

Arnout

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Subject: Creating Daemons: Best Practice?
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