Re: daemons and init scripts

["Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>]

Per the man page kadmind doesn't take that option.  Instead it takes  
a -debug option that prevents detachment.  kpasswdd doesn't take  
either option.  ipropd-* and kdc accept that option.

On Oct 11, 2007, at 5:27 AM, Andreas Haupt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just reviewed some of our init scripts that start heimdal daemons
> (kdc, kadmind, ...). What I've found is that only the kdc daemon
> supports a command line option called --detach:
>
> --detach                      detach from console
>
> Would it be possible that all (ipropd-master, kpasswdd, ...) daemons
> support such an option? This would make it easier to write correct  
> init
> scripts at least for RedHat systems. Its "daemon" function doesn't  
> send
> started programs into background itself.
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>
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