# Launching a daemon/service using CTest

**URL:** <https://discourse.cmake.org/t/launching-a-daemon-service-using-ctest/2515>\
**Category:** Code\
**Tags:** os:macos\
**Created:** [January 11, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/launching-a-daemon-service-using-ctest/2515 "2021-01-11T23:52:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![craig.scott](https://discourse.cmake.org/user_avatar/discourse.cmake.org/craig.scott/32/20_2.png) [@craig.scott](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/craig.scott)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/launching-a-daemon-service-using-ctest/2515/3 "2021-01-12T02:19:46Z")

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Please see the following thread, which discusses this area in quite a bit of detail:

[https://discourse.cmake.org/t/ctest-able-to-daemonize-fixtures](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/ctest-able-to-daemonize-fixtures)

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