This 42 project is an introduction of Daemons.
In this project I had to create my own daemon, in C++ 17, that opens and listen on the port 4242 to log all the received messages into a dedicated log file.
Final grade: 100/100.
This project has been built on my own computer and hasn't been tested on any other computer.
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS for an Intel x86_64.
You'll also need to install:
make(my version is 4.3)clang++(version: 14.0.0-1ubuntu1)
You'll also need figlet & lolcat to get pretty outputs during build.
To build it, it will be as simple as typing make.
To run it, You'll have to execute the binary Matt_daemon with root permission granted:
$ sudo ./Matt_daemonThis will run a process in background, that will run a server listening on localhost:4242. This process will log all the incomming message in a log file: /var/log/matt_daemon/matt_daemon.log.
You'll be able to connect up to 3 clients to this server, by using the nc command as:
$ nc localhost 4242You can also, see the logs, by typing:
$ tail -f /var/log/matt_daemon/matt_daemon.logTo kill the daemon, you can either send a quit message with a connected client, or send a signal to the pid (except SIGKILL).