Marc Haber wrote: > > Hi, > > I am maintainer for run and console-log, and waiting for NM to > complete. Unfortunately, run has a nasty bug that causes console-log > to hang which in turn may prevent a clean shutdown. Upstream doesn't > maintain run any more (and I shouldn't have packaged it in the first > place), and isn't interested in fixing that bug. I don't have the > expertise to fix this one as it is buried deep inside interprocess > communication and vanishes under the debugger and when debugging > outputs are included, and asking for help on debian-devel multiple > times didn't show a helper. > > I am now seriously thinking of having run pulled from the project > since its quality surely isn't up to Debian's standards. > > 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. Is something > that can do this in Debian at the moment, or is there maybe somebody > who can help in debugging run?
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. erik