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Yet another daemon
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This project has made for educational purposes. You may do whatever you
want with it.

Description
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Logs information about itself and prints it to /tmp/file_daemon
Prints:
    1) name
    2) pid
    3) amount of SIGUSR1 calls
    4) running time in seconds
Output example:
to /tmp/file_daemon
    I'm your daemon|Pid: 6901|SIGUSR1: 2|Time: 35|
log
    Yet another daemon: I'm your daemon|Pid: 6901|SIGUSR1: 3|Time: 51

Installation
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Use C compiler
Example:
    gcc daemon.c -o daemon

Run
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./daemon
To send SIGUSR1 use:    kill -s SIGUSR1 'daemon_pid'
To kill daemon use:     kill -KILL 'daemon_pid'