Daemon Service for Graphite

A daemon is a program running in the background, usually providing some sort of service.” enabling other work in the “foreground,” and is independent of control from a terminal. Typical daemons that provide e-mail, printing, telnet, FTP, and web access.

Daemons can either be started by a process, such as a system startup script, where there is no controlling terminal, or by a user at a terminal without “tying up” that terminal

Here we used this technic in Graphite to automate the servers of the Graphite. So we plan to start carbon and graphite server automatically using daemon.

The daemons referenced in /etc/init.d are configured to be run as Linux services. Services are programs that are started and stopped through the init scripts in the /etc/init.d directory. Many of these services are launched when the system is booted. The /sbin/service utility provides a consistent interface to executing the init scripts. The init scripts provide a consistent interface to managing a service by providing options that start, stop, restart, query status.