Re: Daemonizing processes in NetBSD

[Bob Proulx <bob%proulx.com@localhost>]

Bartek Krawczyk wrote:
> is there any program in base which allows to daemonize programs which don't
> detach from console, don't have any "-daemon" option etc.? There are
> sysutils/daemond and sysutils/daemonize in pkgsrc of course but do we have
> anything like "daemon" in FreeBSD base?
> 
> As a workaround I'm using "&" from /bin/sh at the moment.

What starts the program?  If it is started from a daemon then that
should be enough.  If this is started from a terminal though...  I am
sure you already know all about the issues.

I know you area asking about base so I will avoid all of the possible
suggestions one might add outside of base.  But let me ask a
question.  Is it practical for you to install an additional small
program to meet this need?

Because what you are looking for is the functionality of
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/plain/sys-utils/setsid.c
compiled and installed.  If you can install one small program then you
would be set.

Bob