Testing client in client/server.
 

I'm just soliciting for ideas here. I don't think my situation is very unique so there ought to be someone out there that can offer some wisdom :-)

I'm writing a client for a client/server app. On Linux, with autoconf/automake as my build environment (not ideal, but it's pretty much standard). I have pretty much settled for unit++ as my unit test framework.

Automake allows to build test programs (check_PROGRAMS) and run them on 'make check' (TESTS variable). What I don't know is how to get the mock-up server to run, it should be started before the unit tests are run, and shut down afterwards. Any good ideas?