how to make an application as a service

sharad · 02-25-2007, 11:07 PM

Dear all,

I have one application that I am running on red hat linux. I want to make it as a service like other OS services such as network,vsftpd etc.

so could anybody please tell me how to do the same.

Kindly waiting for your reply.

Thanks & Regards,

Sharad.

vswr31 · 02-25-2007, 11:44 PM

whats the app? What distro?

varun_shrivastava · 02-26-2007, 03:11 AM

i think u want to make it as daemon
here is what i think u should do

Code:

int main()
{
    /*SOME CODE*/

    switch(fork())
    {
        case 0:
                setpgrp();//check for man page
                close(0);
                close(1);
                /* YOUR SERVICE PROGRAM CODE
                 -
                 -
                 -
                  */
                 //your service code should redirect
                 //stderr to a log file 
        default:
                sleep(1);
                printf("SERVICE STARTED\n");
                exit(0);
    }
}