From: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
Subject: All daemons should call setsid(2) to become a real daemons

All daemons should call setsid(2) to become a real daemons without
controlling terminal.  Beside this the old boot log will help for
debugging and for support.

---
 libply/ply-utils.c |    1 +
 main.c             |    5 +++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/src/libply/ply-utils.c
+++ b/src/libply/ply-utils.c	2014-02-12 15:05:49.895141867 +0100
@@ -815,6 +815,7 @@ ply_create_daemon (void)
 
       _exit ((int) byte);
     }
+  setsid();
   close (receiver_fd);
 
   handle = calloc (1, sizeof (int));
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c	2014-02-12 14:43:49.216569414 +0100
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ get_log_file_for_mode (ply_mode_t mode)
       break;
     case PLY_MODE_SHUTDOWN:
     case PLY_MODE_UPDATES:
-      filename = _PATH_DEVNULL;
+      filename = PLYMOUTH_LOG_DIRECTORY "/boot.log";
       break;
     default:
       ply_error ("Unhandled case in %s line %d\n", __FILE__, __LINE__);
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ get_log_spool_file_for_mode (ply_mode_t
       break;
     case PLY_MODE_SHUTDOWN:
     case PLY_MODE_UPDATES:
-      filename = NULL;
+      filename = PLYMOUTH_SPOOL_DIRECTORY "/boot.log";
       break;
     default:
       ply_error ("Unhandled case in %s line %d\n", __FILE__, __LINE__);
@@ -715,6 +715,7 @@ prepare_logging (state_t *state)
   if (logfile != NULL)
     {
       ply_trace ("opening log '%s'", logfile);
+      rename(logfile, PLYMOUTH_LOG_DIRECTORY "/boot.olog");
       ply_terminal_session_open_log (state->session, logfile);
 
       if (state->number_of_errors > 0)