Running as linux background service

Hi
I am making a background service to be run on linux machines. As far as I know, Linux services are just regular programs running as: "programname &"
However, before I begin I would like to know if there is anything else I should take into account. For instance, when giving status/information/warning/errors should I just dump it to System.out.println, or is there any other stream that are more appropriate?

no one know anything about this? I would even be
satisfied with only a "no you dont have to do
anything special" or something like that...No you dont have to do anything special ;-)

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