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DAEMON(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual DAEMON(8) NAME daemon -- run detached from the controlling terminal SYNOPSIS daemon [-cf] command arguments ... DESCRIPTION The daemon utility detaches itself from the controlling terminal and exe- cutes the program specified by its arguments. The options are as follows: -c Change the current working directory to the root (``/''). -f Redirect standard input, standard output and standard error to /dev/null. DIAGNOSTICS The daemon utility exits 1 if an error is returned by the daemon(3) library routine, otherwise 0. If the command cannot be executed, an error message is displayed on standard error unless the -f flag is speci- fied. SEE ALSO daemon(3), exec(3), termios(4), tty(4) HISTORY The daemon utility first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0. FreeBSD 11.1 August 30, 2001 FreeBSD 11.1
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