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Top Forums Programming Daemon direction. Or, What do I need to watch for? Post 302332951 by sandholm on Friday 10th of July 2009 12:54:41 PM
Old 07-10-2009
Glad I could help.
You can't go wrong with just about anything from Stevens.
He was one of the best!
And there's sample code in the book.
Andy Tanenbaum is another good Unix author to read.

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one last tidbit, here's a discussion of creating a daemon in tcl/tk, with reference to the steven's book.
You can read the function to daemonize, which pretty much sums up what you'll need to do.

here's the link:
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MINIDLNA(1)						      General Commands Manual						       MINIDLNA(1)

NAME
minidlna -- lightweight DLNA/UPnP-AV server SYNOPSIS
minidlna [-f config_file] [-d] [-a -listening_ip] [-p port] [-s serial] [-m model_number] [-t notify_interval] [-P pid_filename] [-w url] [-R] minidlna [-h | -V] DESCRIPTION
The minidlna daemon is a DLNA/UPnP-AV server sharing media files (video, music and pictures) to clients on your network. Clients are typi- cally multimedia players such as vlc, totem and xbmc, and devices such as portable media players, smartphones, televisions, video game enter- tainment systems and blu-ray players. OPTIONS
All the options below (except -f) can also be set in a configuration file (see minidlna.conf(5)). -a listening_ip IP address the daemon should be listening on. -d Activate debug mode (do not daemonize). -f config_file Specify the location of the configuration file. Uses /etc/minidlna.conf by default. -h Show help and exit. -m model_number Model number the daemon will report to clients in its XML description. -P pid_filename PID file to use; the default is /run/minidlna.pid. -p port Port number to listen on; the default is port 80. -R Forces a full rescan of the media files. -s serial Serial number the daemon will report to clients in its XML description. -t notify_interval Notify interval, in seconds; defaults to 895 seconds. -V Show the program version and exit. -w url Sets the presentation url; the default is http address. FILES
/etc/minidlna.conf Default system-wide configuration file. See minidlna.conf(5) for details on the syntax. SEE ALSO
minidlna.conf(5) Debian July 21, 2011 Debian
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