Hello,
i am very very puzzled,
im doing this project for school, its a deamon logger, but anyways
I'm supposed to run the daemon, let it run on the backgroun, and then run a different program (from command like prompt). but when i run my daemon, it never goes back to the nova> prompt.
i dont know what that means, and what i did wrong... someone please help.
Below is my code:

*Basically what it's supposed to do it look for files in a given direcotry, and append them to the Main Log File, and delete the old files. Only keeping the MainLogFile. So yea..... i got to work as a regular program, but when i tried to make into a daemon, it just freezes up, after eerything is done, not letting me run the main program.
i dont know if i'm exmplaining myself right.... but PLEASE HELP ME!!!!

----Tanya

int filedata(char *pathname, int x);
int List()
//list files in the current working directory
{
        //check if already a daemon
        if(getppid() ==1) return(0);

        //fork
        int i;
        i = fork();
        if(i<0) exit(1);        //fork error, exit
        if(i>0) exit(0);        //parent exits
        //child continues......
        setsid();       //obtain new process group

        //variable declarations
        struct dirent *d;
        char *NewDir;
        DIR *dp;
        char buffer[50];
        static int x=0;
        chdir("LogFiles");
        NewDir = getcwd(buffer, 50);
        cout << "Dir: " << NewDir << endl;
        dp = opendir(NewDir);
        while(d = readdir(dp))
        {
                if(d->d_ino != 0)
                {
                        filedata(d->d_name,x);
                        x++;
                }

        }
        closedir(dp);
        //signla handlers
        signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN);       //ignore the child
        signal(SIGTSTP, SIG_IGN);       //ignore tty signals
        sigset(SIGHUP, SIG_IGN);
        sigset(SIGINT, SIG_IGN);
        sigset(SIGPOLL, SIG_IGN);
        sigset(SIGCLD, SIG_IGN);
        sigset(SIGTERM, SIG_IGN);
        return (0);
}

int filedata(char *pathname, int x)
//list file detail in the directory
{
        struct stat statbuf;
        ifstream  in;   //reading

        if(stat(pathname, &statbuf) == -1)
        {
                cout << "could not stat " << pathname << endl;
                return (-1);
        }
        cout << pathname << endl;
        string Msg, ToFileFinal;
        string ToFile;
        if(x <2)
        {
                cout << ". and .. right now...." << endl;
        }
        else
        {
                cout << "FileName: " << pathname << endl;
                //read from a file
                in.open(pathname);
                getline(in, ToFile);
                getline(in,Msg);
                cout << "ToFile: " << ToFile << endl;
                cout << "Message: " << Msg << endl;
                //write to a file
                ToFileFinal = "../";
                ToFileFinal.append(ToFile);
                cout << "the output will be written to: " << ToFileFina
                cout << endl;
                ofstream out;
                out.open(ToFileFinal.c_str(), ios::app);
                out << Msg;
                out << endl;
                out << "*** | *** | *** | *** | *** | ***" << endl;
                //close the files before leaving
                in.close();
                out.close();
                //delete the input files
                cout << "about to remove..." << pathname << endl;
                remove(pathname);
                wait(30);
        }
        return (statbuf.st_mode);

}

int main()
{
                List();
                while(1) sleep(1);//run
                return (0);
}