[BusyBox] how to automatically start an app at boot time?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Jeff Angielski wrote:

> 
> We ran into a similiar problem.  The app runs fine from the shell but
> stops prematurely when started during the init sequence.
> 
> I believe the problem was related to the management of the parent/child
> processes as the inittab is parsed and executed.  Check out
> run_actions() in init.c to see how this is handled.
> 
> A quick check to determine if this is the case is run your application
> using "once" in the inittab instead of "sysinit".
> 
> If this works for you, you might want to daemonize your application and
> be done with it.

i actually tried this yesterday (using "once" in inittab) and it worked
fine.  so it sounds like this is precisely the problem.

so what does it mean to "daemonize" an app?  i mean, beyond some
fairly obvious steps, is there a technical meaning to the phrase
"daemonize" here?

rday