I wanted to control the my television and blu ray player/receiver from my pi, so i installed the client on my raspbian pi installation. Everytime cec_client start it’s does some initializing, so i wanted to run is as some kind of daemon, i thought about a fire options, like maybe some expect kind of script without daemoniziing or a python with python expect to run it and control it, with mayne a socket.

Once in a will you need you have a lang running script that you started into a shell but you want to transfer it to a screen. For this i am using the reptyr program which i installed with sudo pacman -S reptyr or sudo apt-get install reptyr find pid ps ax | grep ssh # find pid 34177 (for example) # start a screen screen -S my_screen_name # in de screen start reptyr reptyr 34177 if you get a issue with ptrace scope just change this value echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope

If you want to start some daemon in the background you can install daemontools and user supervise, but i like to use screen to start daemons in the background, so that i can easily see the output.

check screen if ! /usr/bin/screen -ls | awk '{print $1}' | grep ".${SCREEN_NAME}$" >/dev/null; then echo "starting $SCREEN_NAME" screen -S "${SCREEN_NAME}" -d -m "$COMMAND_SCRIPT" fi I use this snippet, to check of a screen with a given name exists and if not start it up, i run a script i call screen-ls.