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ptx 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support

> the thing you were running was generally expected to do the double-fork hack itself and otherwise do 'well behaved daemon' things

FreeBSD has a general utility that does this for you, daemon(8): https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=daemon&sektion=8

nesarkvechnep 6 months ago [–]

I also use it every time I need a service which should be restarted on crash. It's a very handy utility.

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