>> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:02:00 -0600, >> Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> said:
C> I got the impression this question was about a script backgrounding itself, C> though -- possibly creating a daemon using bash. Same here. This seems a bit slimy, but it works (assuming you don't already have an environment variable called DAEMON): me% cat doit #!/bin/ksh # script to daemonize itself. PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin; export PATH umask 022 env | grep 'DAEMON=yes' > /dev/null case $? in 0) logger -t test "$$ is a daemon, args $@" ;; 1) echo "$$ not a daemon, args $@" DAEMON=yes daemon $0 ${1+"$@"} ;; esac exit 0 me% ./doit a b c 18131 not a daemon, args a b c me% tail -1 /var/log/syslog Jun 5 18:41:54 host test: 18135 is a daemon, args a b c -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company Gingko Viagra: to help you remember what the f*** you're doing. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"