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Subject: Re: rc scripts: how to start a process that doesn't daemonize
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Marco Molteni wrote:
> Should I just override start() completely or is there a
> common way to do it? I don't think I can simply pass a "&" somewhere...

Oh, yes, you can:

command_args="&"

should do the work.

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Alex Dupre