On Jan 31, 2006, at 12:37 PM, rudolf wrote:
>>     /usr/sbin/daemon echo "yeah" 2>&1 > /dev/null
>> You could also hunt down DJB's daemontools, which have similar  
>> intentions...
>
> I'm just curious how it's possible that you have the /usr/sbin/ 
> daemon on your NetBSD. I can't find it on NetBSD 2.0.2, 2.1, 3.0  
> and current but yes, there is one on the FreeBSD 5.4 here ... :)

:-)  I didn't claim NetBSD has daemon, but a motivated person could  
build one for NetBSD from here:

   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/daemon/

...and it would likely solve the OP's problem.

-- 
-Chuck