I had an hour to burn so I thought that I would try starting a couple of daemons the ''proper'' way using the redhat startup functions, etc, that they use in their scripts in /etc/init.d. The main functions are daemon & killproc. It seems to me that they could be made much more usable, complaints: * daemon, takes a --user argument, great I don't want them to run as root. These are simple perl & shell scripts, I want them to run as daemons, but there isn't a --daemon option, I shall need to modify them to fork and have the parent die & child continue. Not hugely difficult, but would be nice. * killproc - this looks for a xxx.pid file in /var/run, unfortunately /var/run is only writable by root, so the processes started by daemon can't write there, (remember: they are not setuid root). OK: lots of programs have this problem and so have a pid file in a directory that is writable by them .... but killproc only looks in /var/run, no options for anything else. * daemon has an option --check that allows you to set a different basename when generating the .pid file, that is nice since my perl scripts are FooBar.pl You would have thought that killproc would have had the same option -- no, not that nice. I would be happy to do this work, but would only do so if it is likely to be included in the next version of Fedora/Redhat (assuming that my code quality is up to scratch). -- Alain Williams Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ #include <std_disclaimer.h> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
