>>>>> "James" == James Sadler <freshto...@gmail.com> writes:
>> >> If you add a --background argument to start-stop-daemon, it'll do >> the daemonification for you, but then you lose startup checks. James> Can you clarify what you mean by 'losing startup checks'? Typcially, a daemon will do some checks at startup time -- for example, will not call daemonify() until *after* parsing a config file, and checking it has the right privileges. It'll call exit(EXIT_FAILURE) (or similar) if these startup checks fail. start-stop-daemon logs an error in the normal case if it fails to start a daemon. (basically all it does is invoke the program then wait for it; if it has a zero exit code it assumes the daemon started correctly, otherwise not) With --background, start-stop-deamin doesn't wait, so any errors detected by the process will not be reported. -- Dr Peter Chubb peter DOT chubb AT nicta.com.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia All things shall perish from under the sky/Music alone shall live, never to die -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
