Here's a simple python daemon I can't manage to run as a background process:

#!/usr/bin/env python 

import socket 

host = '' 
port = 843 
backlog = 5 
size = 1024 
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) 
s.bind((host,port)) 
s.listen(backlog) 
while 1: 
   client, address = s.accept() 
   data = client.recv(size) 
   if data == '<policy-file-request/>\0': 
       client.send('<?xml version="1.0"?><cross-domain-policy><allow-access-from domain="*" to-ports="*"/></cross-domain-policy>') 
   client.close()

It's a socket policy file server (you may have heard of the restiction Adope put on socket connection - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/socket_policy_files.html); that works well when gets run like an "ordinary" process - "python that_server.py", - but I get problem to run it in the background.

Running like so: "that_server.py &", - does not work.