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Old 07-24-2008
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That won't daemonize anything. Put a command "ps -f > /tmp/ps.out" in the script you think is a daemon. Look at the output. See ? in the TTY field? If not, the script is not a daemon. That is the definition of a daemon.. no controling terminal.

To daemonize ksh.1 do:
echo /path/to/ksh.1 | at now