On Thursday 20 October 2005 03:49, Robert Watson wrote: > 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, we are actually saying the same thing ;-). I was comparing the & (backgroud) approach done with command_args="&" to the daemon approach done with start_cmd="/usr/sbin/daemon /usr/local/bin/myprog" Maybe it wasn't clear from the quoted context. marco _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
