On Fri, Dec 29 2017, Bill Allombert wrote: >> It would be nice to have a non-forking mode though. > > So you would like a command line option that prevent forking ? > What should be the name ? --no-daemon ?
I've seen and like "-f" for "foreground" personally, but --no-daemon is just as good: your call. This would avoid the need for a pid file in both cases: With start-stop-daemon you can combine -m -b to make a pid file for you. With systemd just change Type=simple (or remove it as it's default).
