I am pleased to announce the release of hdaemonize 0.4. hdaemonize is a library to handle the details of writing daemons for unix systems. Changes from 0.3 to 0.4: * I have taken over as maintainer from Anton Tayanovskyy. Many thanks to Anton for getting the library started. * Added a field to the CreateDaemon type to specify actions to run before dropping privileges, for example, binding trusted ports. The action has type IO a. Immediately after running it, the program drops privileges, then runs the main daemon routine with the output of the action as its argument. Changes from 0.2 to 0.3 (since I think it didn't get an announcement): * Big API change. In analogy with several other Haskell interfaces, there is now a datatype CreateDaemon which specifies details such as the user to switch to after dropping privileges, the name to run, and arguments to syslog. I am using the library in a couple of daemons, which have driven all the API changes in the last two versions. It is stable enough for general use. There is Haddock documentation, but I would love comments on where it is unclear or ambiguous. -- Frederick Ross Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core Facility Life Sciences, EPFL http://bbcf.epfl.ch/ +41 21 693 14 39