Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 23:06:17 +0000 (UTC) From: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r353024 - head/usr.sbin/daemon Message-ID: <201910022306.x92N6HhF096242@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: ian Date: Wed Oct 2 23:06:17 2019 New Revision: 353024 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/353024 Log: Clarify how the -f option for daemon(8) interacts with other options related to redirecting stdout and stderr. Modified: head/usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.8 Modified: head/usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.8 ============================================================================== --- head/usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.8 Wed Oct 2 21:49:39 2019 (r353023) +++ head/usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.8 Wed Oct 2 23:06:17 2019 (r353024) @@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ Change the current working directory to the root .It Fl f Redirect standard input, standard output and standard error to .Pa /dev/null . +When this option is used together with any of the options related to file +or syslog output, the standard file descriptors are first redirected to +.Pa /dev/null , +then stdout and/or stderr is redirected to a file or to syslog as +specified by the other options. .It Fl S Enable syslog output. This is implicitly applied if other syslog parameters are provided.
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