Index: daemons/lircd.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/lirc/lirc/daemons/lircd.c,v
retrieving revision 5.77
diff -u -p -u -p -r5.77 lircd.c
--- daemons/lircd.c	9 May 2008 18:40:59 -0000	5.77
+++ daemons/lircd.c	14 Aug 2008 08:56:50 -0000
@@ -518,7 +518,11 @@ void add_client(int sock)
 				shutdown(clis[0],2);
 				close(clis[0]);
 				clin=0;
-				dosigterm(SIGTERM);
+				/* Don't exit here, otherwise lirc bails out,
+				 * and lircd exits, making it impossible to
+				 * connect to when we have a device actually
+				 * plugged in.
+				dosigterm(SIGTERM); */
 			}
 		}
 	}