Robert Bielik wrote:
> Brian Mathis skrev:
>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Robert Bielik <robert.bielik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I'm converting Ubuntu startup scripts to work on CentOS (5.3), and I'm having trouble finding out how
>>> to start a daemon in a certain directory? For Ubuntu, start-stop-daemon has the option -d to set the
>>> working directory.
>>>
>>> TIA
>>> /Rob
>> You could "cd" there in the script before starting it.
>
> Wouldn't that just involve the session which starts the daemon, but not the daemon session itself? Or does
> "daemon" startup the child session within the same working directory ?
Child processes inherit pretty much everything from their parent at the
time of the fork(), including the working directory. If they want to
change, they have to do it afterwards.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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