On 2010-05-07, Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 20:27 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I'm writing an init script for a daemon that needs to be started in a >> particular directory, and I can't figure out how to do that with >> start-stop-daemon. >> >> It always seems to start the daemon in '/' regardless of the current >> working directory when start-stop-daemon is invoked. > > start-stop-daemon has a man page that explains it's options,
Yes, I know. > including: > > -d, --chdir path > chdir to this directory before starting the daemon. That must be a recent addition, because it's not on my man page from baselayout 1.12.13 (the most recent stable version). I don't think I'll switch to an unstable baselayout just yet. Thanks anyway. -- Grant
