Cool! That worked. I notice that you do check the status of the program before giving the "OK". Thanks. === Al --- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Al Sparks wrote: [snip] > The "daemon" function is intended to be used with programs that put > themselves in the background, and doesn't work so well if you have to do > it yourself wuth "&". > > I had a similar problem with the initscripts for bittorrent (seed and > tracker programs) in Fedora Extras. What I ended up with was along the > lines of: [snip]