Teo's Blog

I just released version 0.9.2 of daemonizer, a tool that starts a process while detaching it from the terminal. It makes the given process an orphan, closes all files descriptors, and reopens standard input and output to a log file. This allows you to run and program as a daemon.

The tool was originally written by John Kelly. I offered to maintain it, packaged it and adapted it for general use.

Please see the project homepage or the freshmeat page for more details.

I just released check_disko version 2.2.0: check_diskio is a Nagios plugin to monitor disk I/O.
Changes from version 2.1.x:

• the device to be monitored can now be specified using a mount point (useful when monitoring removable USB disks, which could change the device name after each reboot)