daemonspawn

spawn daemon processes, check their status, and kill them

js usage

``js
var daemon = require('daemonspawn')
`

$3

spawns a daemonized process by spawning cmd with opts using npm-execspawn, which has the same interface as child_process.spawn

returns proc, the child process. you need to remember proc.pid in order to use the other methods, usually people save it to a file, but any method will work.

$3

checks if pid is running, calls cb with (error, running) where running is a boolean

$3

SIGKILLs the pid, calls cb with (err)

cli usage

`sh
$ npm i daemonspawn -g

$ daemonspawn
Usage: daemonspawn [args..]

spawn spawns a daemon, prints pid to stdout
status given a pid of a daemon, checks if daemon is running or not
kill given a pid of a daemon, kills the daemon with SIGKILL

$ daemonspawn spawn node server.js
3762

$ daemonspawn status 3762
daemon is running

$ daemonspawn kill 3762
daemon has been killed

$ daemonspawn status 3762
daemon is not running
``