As a socially responsible coder, you know your daemon needs to run under tightly policed user, like www or therebemonstershere. So your init script will look something like this:
su - therebemonstershere -c " { /usr/local/bin/mydaemon & } "
You'd also like to keep track of its pid, so you can kill your daemon later via /etc/init.d/mydaemon stop
su - therebemonstershere -c " { /usr/local/bin/mydaemon & } ; echo \$! > /var/run/mydaemon.pid"
But this isn't enough: what about stdout and stderr?
su - therebemonstershere -c " { /usr/local/bin/mydaemon > /var/log/mydaemon.log 2>&1 & } ; echo \$! > /var/run/mydaemon.pid"
Looking good! But there's one more catch: when your terminal dies, your daemon will get a HUP signal and die too. Probably in a week or so when you finally kill that xterm and forgot any of this happened.
su - therebemonstershere -c " { nohup /usr/local/bin/mydaemon > /var/log/mydaemon.log 2>&1 & } ; echo \$! > /var/run/mydaemon.pid"
