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Diffstat (limited to 'man/start-stop-daemon.8')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/start-stop-daemon.8 b/man/start-stop-daemon.8 index 88f542c7..1b1f664c 100644 --- a/man/start-stop-daemon.8 +++ b/man/start-stop-daemon.8 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd January 1, 2009 +.Dd April 19, 2009 .Dt START-STOP-DAEMON 8 SMM .Os OpenRC .Sh NAME @@ -140,6 +140,12 @@ Redirect the standard output of the process to logfile when started with Must be an absolute pathname, but relative to the path optionally given with .Fl r , -chroot . The logfile can also be a named pipe. +.It Fl w , -wait Ar seconds +Wait +.Ar seconds +after starting and check that daemon is still running. +Useful for daemons that check configuration after forking or stopping race +conditions where the pidfile is written out after forking. .It Fl 2 , -stderr Ar logfile The same thing as .Fl 1 , -stdout @@ -160,7 +166,8 @@ can also set the scheduling priority of the daemon, but the command line option takes precedence. .Pp .Va SSD_STARTWAIT -overrides the number of milliseconds set in +As the +.Fl w , -wait option above. .Pa /etc/rc.conf .Nm waits for to check the daemon is still running. |