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  • if the script starts a daemon, does it get the daemon to go into the background and detach itself from it? i.e. does the script itself still complete? Commented Feb 16, 2013 at 11:10
  • the script starts the daemon and exits, and I think detach itself from it. The script is a python script and uses subprocess.call() to start the daemon Commented Feb 16, 2013 at 18:06
  • documentation for call says that the process waits for the call to complete. If the daemon does not return immediately, that could be why you have this issue. Can you change the script to fork the daemon instead and see if that does it? Commented Feb 16, 2013 at 19:05