rc scripts: how to start a process that doesn't daemonize itself?

Marco Molteni molter at tin.it
Wed Oct 19 08:15:10 PDT 2005


Hi,

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...

thanks
marco


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