In the last episode (Oct 19), Marco Molteni said:
> I have a program that I would like to control via a rc script,
> say /usr/local/etc/rc.d/myprog
>
> problem is this program needs to be put explicitly in background.
>
> I was playing with things like
>
> command="/usr/sbin/daemon /usr/local/bin/myprog"
>
> but this obviously works only for the start case.
>
> Should I just override start() completely or is there a
> common way to do it? I don't think I can simply pass a "&" somewhere...
Try putting the "&" in command_args; that way it'll only be used during
startup. I do that in some of my homegrown rc.d scripts. A (probably
cleaner) way is to set
start_cmd="/usr/sbin/daemon /usr/local/bin/myprog"
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Dan Nelson
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