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On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Branden Robinson wrote:
> I tried to implement these solutions using the start-stop-daemon, but I
> encountered a number of difficulties with that approach, not the least of
> which was that the "--help" option lied to me; if you give
> start-stop-daemon an option it doesn't recognize, it dies instead of
> passing on those options to the daemon you're calling (with --exec). Oh
> well.
I'm not sure if this works under bo, but the hamm s-s-d help gives:
start-stop-daemon -S|--start options ... -- arguments ...
So,
start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/bin/fetchmail -- -d 300
is the way to startup 'fetchmail -d 300'.
Cheers,
aj
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