How to run a program as daemon ?

you need a debugger which follows the forked process, or use a debugger which can attach to a running process
See man gdb for example.

Under Solaris I like to use the truss command.  It is like the strace command under linux.

e.g.

truss date

Regards, Nisus
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 truss -p ...
is the solution then, but keep in mind that it only traces system calls

Yep, as nisus says, truss -f

But ...

A daemon process should not itself be a session or process group leader.  It is usual for the things to be competely disassociated from the any controlling tty (hence the session leader step), however the first tty device opened by a session or process group leader which hasn't already got a ctty, will become the controlling tty for that session or pgrp.  This is resolved by using ONOCTTY flag, or traditionally, before ONOCTTY,

  parent process forks
   first child setpgrp/setsid
   first child closes all open fd's
   first child forks
     second childs runs as daemon
   first child exits
  parent exits

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