On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 13:10:35 -0500 Michael Lustfield <mich...@lustfield.net> wrote:
[...] > Of course, we shouldn't expect everyone to use systemd-run because > that's locking into an init system which should quite obviously be > avoided. That, again. The person who suggested using systemd merely pointed out that the task of turning a regular process into daemon is trivially solvable using systemd-run. This kind of implies that if the OP uses systemd, they could just read the appropriate manual page and have their task solved. > It does seem like daemonize serves a very unique purpose where > start-stop-daemon is a bit overkill or cumbersome. It's obviously > something that would never be used in an init script where > start-stop-daemon is actually appropriate. However, I can see a few > situations where I would launch this from a script. Not only that... > but I can see myself rewriting some scripts to make use of this if it > were included in Debian. Two points: * It seems you have missed a message in this thread mentioning the `daemon` package which is in Debian (since ages) and is able to daemonize a regular program. * Not to bash the maintainers of `start-stop-daemon` but this program is sort of a hack as it can't do most of what's expected from a daemonizer: it can't capture the standard output streams of the child it spawns and redirect them to syslog, and it can't restart the child when that dies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150709232321.ebd0334a53d541327ca5d...@domain007.com
