On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 04:10:47PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On (2003/07/25 15:56), Carlos Molina Molina wrote:
> > daemon -f /local1/usr/local/sbin/popb4smtp-watch &&
> > echo -n ' popb4smtp-watch'
[...]
> > This work, but not at the 100 %, the reason it's that the daemon "user" (I
> > thing that), doen't exits in my sistem (Sun Solaris). I thing that it's for
> > linux, my question is : exist this codigo for Solaris??? or how can I do
> > this??? this it's urgent.
> That looks like the stuff I wrote a while back.
> It relies on the daemon(8) utility, which exists in FreeBSD and Linux
> but is _not_ mandated by POSIX and doesn't appear on Solaris.
[...]
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s/and Linux/and on some Linux distributions/
daemon is used in RedHat's init-scripts, afaik they use a simple shell
function. Debian uses start-stop-daemon(8) for this purpose.
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cu andreas
