diff --git a/R/daemons.R b/R/daemons.R
index 000adf7c..416ffa5f 100644
--- a/R/daemons.R
+++ b/R/daemons.R
@@ -539,6 +539,9 @@ parse_tls <- function(tls)
 
 libp <- function(lp = .libPaths()) lp[file.exists(file.path(lp, "mirai"))][1L]
 
+wa31 <- function(url, dots, rs, tls = NULL)
+  shQuote(sprintf("mirai::daemon(\"%s\"%s%s,rs=c(%s))", url, dots, parse_tls(tls), paste0(rs, collapse = ",")))
+
 wa3 <- function(url, dots, rs, tls = NULL)
   shQuote(sprintf("mirai::daemon(\"%s\"%s%s,rs=c(%s),dispatcher=FALSE)", url, dots, parse_tls(tls), paste0(rs, collapse = ",")))
 
diff --git a/R/dispatcher.R b/R/dispatcher.R
index 6d5ff871..61317d6f 100644
--- a/R/dispatcher.R
+++ b/R/dispatcher.R
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ v1_dispatcher <- function(host, url = NULL, n = NULL, ..., retry = FALSE,
       }
     }
 
-    auto && launch_daemon(wa3(nurl, dots, next_stream(envir)), output)
+    auto && launch_daemon(wa31(nurl, dots, next_stream(envir)), output)
 
     basenames[i] <- burl
     servernames[i] <- listurl
diff --git a/tests/tests.R b/tests/tests.R
index d603484a..2d73275e 100644
--- a/tests/tests.R
+++ b/tests/tests.R
@@ -320,18 +320,16 @@ connection && Sys.getenv("NOT_CRAN") == "true" && {
   Sys.sleep(1L)
   option <- 15L
   Sys.setenv(R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES = "stats,utils")
-  test_equal(2L, daemons(2, dispatcher = "process", maxtasks = 10L, timerstart = 1L, walltime = 500L, seed = 1546, token = TRUE, cleanup = option, autoexit = tools::SIGCONT))
+  test_equal(1L, daemons(1, dispatcher = "process", maxtasks = 10L, timerstart = 1L, walltime = 500L, seed = 1546, token = TRUE, cleanup = option, autoexit = tools::SIGCONT))
   Sys.unsetenv("R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES")
   Sys.sleep(1L)
   mq <- mirai(runif(1L), .timeout = 1000)
   test_true(is.numeric(mq[]))
   mq <- mirai(Sys.sleep(0.7), .timeout = 500)
   test_class("matrix", status()[["daemons"]])
-  test_type("character", saisei(i = 2L, force = TRUE))
-  m <- mirai(mirai::daemon(url), url = nextget("urls")[2L])
-  Sys.sleep(0.1)
   test_null(saisei(i = 1L))
-  test_type("integer", mirai(1L, .timeout = 500)[])
+  test_type("character", saisei(i = 1L, force = TRUE))
+  Sys.sleep(0.1)
   test_zero(daemons(0))
 }
 # additional legacy interface tests
@@ -340,10 +338,9 @@ connection && .Platform[["OS.type"]] != "windows" && Sys.getenv("NOT_CRAN") == "
   test_equal(daemons(url = host_url(ws = TRUE, tls = TRUE), dispatcher = "thread", output = TRUE), 1L)
   test_equal(nextget("n"), 1L)
   test_equal(length(nextget("urls")), 1L)
-  Sys.sleep(1L)
   test_class("matrix", status()$daemons)
   test_null(saisei(i = 0L))
-  test_type("character", saisei(i = 1L))
+  test_print(saisei(i = 1L))
   Sys.sleep(0.1)
   test_zero(daemons(0))
 }