daemon 0.6.3-1 (i386 binary) in ubuntu intrepid

turns other processes into daemons
 There are many tasks that need to be performed to correctly set up a
 daemon process. This can be tedious. Daemon performs these tasks for
 other processes. This is useful for writing daemons in languages other
 than C, C++ or Perl (e.g. /bin/sh, Java).
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 If you want to write daemons in languages that can link against C functions
 (e.g. C, C++), see libslack which contains the core functionality of daemon.
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 Upstream URL: http://www.libslack.org/daemon/