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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:36:55 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it>
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Subject: Re: rc scripts: how to start a process that doesn't daemonize
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In the last episode (Oct 19), Marco Molteni said:
> I have a program that I would like to control via a rc script,
> say /usr/local/etc/rc.d/myprog
> 
> problem is this program needs to be put explicitly in background.
> 
> I was playing with things like
> 
> command="/usr/sbin/daemon /usr/local/bin/myprog"
> 
> but this obviously works only for the start case.
> 
> Should I just override start() completely or is there a
> common way to do it? I don't think I can simply pass a "&" somewhere...

Try putting the "&" in command_args; that way it'll only be used during
startup.  I do that in some of my homegrown rc.d scripts.  A (probably
cleaner) way is to set 

start_cmd="/usr/sbin/daemon /usr/local/bin/myprog"

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com