README.md

libdeamonizer

A lightweight library to easily create daemon in C++.

You deamon should simply inherit daemonize::daemon and put it's starting point in the run method. You can get the log object from your daemon, and anything you write to it will be send to syslog.

Usage

An example main could look like:

#include <libdaemonize/daemonizer.hpp>
#include <libdaemonize/syslog.hpp>

int main(int argc, const char** argv)
{
  try
	{
		daemonize::syslog syslog("my_daemon");
		my_daemon d(syslog);
		daemonize::daemonizer(d);
	}
	catch(int status)
	{
		return status;
	}
	catch(...)
	{
		return EXIT_FAILURE;
	}

	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Installation

Libdaemonize is still under development, so you'll need libtool, autoconf and automake to create the install script.

libtoolize
aclocal
autoconf
automake --add-missing

Then configure, build and install the library:

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

ToDo

• Handle signals
• Write tests

Already done:

• Add stream behavior to logger (operator<<), with a configurable priority.
• Handle daemonize::logger constructor parameters in daemonizer initialization.