Properly daemonize memcached for debian

The debianish start script routes the STDERR/STDOUT to make "logfiles", but in
doing so doesn't break free of the launching session. Patch fixes that.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/start-memcached b/scripts/start-memcached
index e33b95c..aa9dabe 100755
--- a/scripts/start-memcached
+++ b/scripts/start-memcached
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 # Anyone may use this little script under the same terms as
 # memcached itself.
 
+use POSIX qw(setsid);
 use strict;
 
 if($> != 0 and $< != 0)
@@ -105,7 +106,14 @@ my $pid = fork();
 
 if($pid == 0)
 {
+    # setsid makes us the session leader
+    setsid();
     reopen_logfile($fd_reopened);
+    # must fork again now that tty is closed
+    $pid = fork();
+    if ($pid) {
+      exit(0);
+    }
     exec "$memcached $params";
     exit(0);