Init Process init_afd


AFD works without any user interface and runs as a daemon process in the background. The parent of all AFD process is the process init_afd. This process ensures that all other process are started in the correct order and that the infrastructure is setup correctly for AFD to run. Once AFD is up running it monitors all process it started. If a process fails for whatever reason it notes this in a log file and will try to restart this process again.

IMPORTANT: Do not try to start directly on the command line.  There is a commandline tool 'afd' that does this for you. Also do not try to stop AFD by killing init_afd, especially not with the option -9!