On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Robert Woodcock wrote:
> Another idea I got on IRC was providing a --background flag to
> start-stop-daemon so that daemons could be started in parallel - this
> might have quite an effect on SMP systems, and DNS misconfigs would be
> more treatable if sendmail started in the background instead of waiting a
> few minutes timing out on stuff before anything else could run.
Already done. Here is the wrapper. Rename start-stop-daemon to
start-stop-daemon~.
Adam
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#!/bin/sh
back=0
msg=1
rest=" "
while [ $# -gt 0 ];do
[ "$1" = "-B" -o "$1" = "--background" ] && back=1 && shift && continue
[ "$1" = "-N" -o "$1" = "--nobackmsg" ] && msg=0 && shift && continue
opt=$1;shift
rest="$rest $opt"
case $opt in
--) rest="$rest $*";shift $#;;
esac
done
if [ $back = 1 ];then
[ $msg = 1 ] && echo -n "(background)" 1>&2
bk="&"
fi
eval /sbin/start-stop-daemon~ $rest $bk
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