Re: rc.d and non daemon servers

[Amitai Schlair <schmonz%schmonz.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Steven M. Bellovin 
<smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote:

> I've always used &.  I wonder, though, if someone should write a
> daemon(8) that would simply call daemon(1) and then exec its arguments.

Such a thing exists:

http://libslack.org/daemon/

It'd be great to get it in pkgsrc. :-)