Pukka Ruby Daemon

Pukka Ruby Daemon

# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1740308/create-a-daemon-with-double-fork-in-ruby
# Example double-forking Unix daemon initializer.

raise 'Must run as root' if Process.euid != 0

raise 'First fork failed' if (pid = fork) == -1
exit unless pid.nil?

Process.setsid
raise 'Second fork failed' if (pid = fork) == -1
exit unless pid.nil?
puts "Daemon pid: #{Process.pid}" # Or save it somewhere, etc.

Dir.chdir '/'
File.umask 0000

STDIN.reopen '/dev/null'
STDOUT.reopen '/dev/null', 'a'
STDERR.reopen STDOUT