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| author | Christian Ruppert <idl0r@gentoo.org> | 2012-01-17 18:23:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Christian Ruppert <idl0r@gentoo.org> | 2012-01-17 18:25:44 +0100 |
| commit | 9c0edc5c527de01cbe2dccbc7f1a2c571b6acc41 (patch) | |
| tree | 0bfe4211a3b217d3cf4372cc984835f2c191635c | |
| parent | d729f9d0f2d773c3cddc2f3004364d831081f692 (diff) | |
Use the "--make-pidfile" when command_background is used
The start-stop-daemon "--make-pidfile" option is now used by default when using
command_background, this requires a pidfile to be specified.
Document command_background option.
Reported-by: Giampaolo Tomassoni <giampaolo@tomassoni.biz>
X-Gentoo-Bug: 399165
X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/399165
| -rw-r--r-- | man/runscript.8 | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sh/runscript.sh.in | 6 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/runscript.8 b/man/runscript.8 index dbc0b7dc..dd934c4b 100644 --- a/man/runscript.8 +++ b/man/runscript.8 @@ -111,6 +111,11 @@ Daemon to start or stop via if no start or stop function is defined by the service. .It Ar command_args List of arguments to pass to the daemon when starting. +.It Ar command_background +Set this to "true", "yes" or "1" (case-insensitive) to force the daemon into +the background. This implies the "--make-pidfile" and "--pidfile" option of +.Xr start-stop-daemon 8 +so the pidfile variable must be set. .It Ar pidfile Pidfile to use for the above defined command. .It Ar name diff --git a/sh/runscript.sh.in b/sh/runscript.sh.in index 470f04c6..e042be6d 100644 --- a/sh/runscript.sh.in +++ b/sh/runscript.sh.in @@ -124,7 +124,11 @@ start() local _background= ebegin "Starting ${name:-$RC_SVCNAME}" if yesno "${command_background}"; then - _background="--background --pidfile" + if [ -z "${pidfile}" ]; then + eend 1 "command_background option used but no pidfile specified" + return 1 + fi + _background="--background --make-pidfile --pidfile" fi if yesno "$start_inactive"; then local _inactive=false |