FreeBSD and most recent Linux distributions can run an application as a daemon without special modifications. However, in certain older distributions and in special cases it may be necessary to enable Shairport Sync to daemonise itself. Use the `--with-libdaemon` configuration option:
- `--with-libdaemon` Includes a demonising library needed if you want Shairport Sync to demonise itself with the `-d` option. Not needed for `systemd`-based systems which demonise programs differently.
-- `--with-piddir=<pathname>` Specifies a pathname to a directory in which to write the PID file which is created when Shairport Sync daemonises itself and used to locate the deamon process to be killed with the `-k` command line option.
+- `--with-piddir=<pathname>` Specifies a pathname to a directory in which to write the PID file which is created when Shairport Sync daemonises itself and used to locate the daemon process to be killed with the `-k` command line option.
### Automatic Start
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#ifdef CONFIG_LIBDAEMON
/* If we are going to daemonise, check that the daemon is not running already.*/
if ((config.daemonise) && ((pid = daemon_pid_file_is_running()) >= 0)) {
- warn("The %s deamon is already running with process ID (PID) %u.", config.appName, pid);
+ warn("The %s daemon is already running with process ID (PID) %u.", config.appName, pid);
// daemon_log(LOG_ERR, "The %s daemon is already running as PID %u", config.appName, pid);
return 1;
}