Hi, I noticed that firewalld keeps the stdin/stdout/stderror file descriptors open when forking. The recommended way for daemons is to redirect those to /dev/null and close all others. See [1] Section "SysV Daemons, 1. + 9. This is important when running firewalld in non-systemd environments. [2] has some example code for python. Unfortunately I'm not much of a python hacker myself. Michael [1] http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/daemon.html [2] http://code.activestate.com/recipes/278731-creating-a-daemon-the-python-way/ -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?