Executing shell script with system() returns 256. What does that mean?

Question

I\'ve written a shell script to soft-restart HAProxy (reverse proxy). Executing the script from the shell works. But I want a daemon to execute the script. That doesn\'t wor

Answer 1

I have the same problem when call script that contains `kill' command in a daemon. The daemon must have closed the stdout, stderr... Use something like system("scrips.sh > /dev/null") should work.