Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:49:23 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc scripts: how to start a process that doesn't daemonize itself? Message-ID: <20051020024753.M98055@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20051019213807.2b676e95.molter@tin.it> References: <200510191715.21582.molter@tin.it> <20051019153655.GB4225@dan.emsphone.com> <20051019213807.2b676e95.molter@tin.it>
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Marco Molteni wrote: >> 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" > > thanks to you and the others posters for the & trick. > > It works, but as you say it smells hackish. For one, it doesn't detach > from the controlling tty. Not a big deal when run from init I think, but > it may make a difference when run multiuser from a terminal (say myprog > forcestart). > > anyway, better than nothing ;-) The daemon(8) page claims it detaches from the tty. You may also want to use the -f argument to redirect stdio. If it isn't working properly, please file a PR, thanks! Robert N M Watson
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