On 2000-12-22, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marc Haber wrote: >> Hi, >> I am maintainer for run and console-log, and waiting for NM to [...] >> To keep console-log, I need a program that can daemonize a "normal" >> program, i.e. put it in the background, maintain a pid file unter >> /var/run and optionally restart the program when it dies.
> what about that start-stop-daemon or something like that used to > start and stop daemons and various services, check the /etc/init.d > scripts what/how they use, I do not have debian handy at the moment > but I think it might do what you want. start-stop-daemon won't work, because console-log (contrary to Marc's explanation needs a (nay, two) less process in the foreground to allow the user to watch log messages. I wonder if a sh script could do what Marc described... > erik -- Andreas Fuchs, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!
