Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:57:47 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Attempt to write an rc.d script not working Message-ID: <20210120155747.405915e8@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <trinity-9070d165-bd6b-4eac-b2f1-4223e6bdb79e-1611156815575@3c-app-mailcom-lxa02> References: <trinity-9070d165-bd6b-4eac-b2f1-4223e6bdb79e-1611156815575@3c-app-mailcom-lxa02>
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On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:33:35 +0100
Rocky Hotas wrote:
> dummy2_start()
> {
> nc -l 59002
> }
...
> Trying again, as root, `service dummy2 start', it prints nothing this
> time, and the prompt does not return.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
daemons do a double fork into the background. nc will run in the
foreground and block the start command. Probably you should use
daemon(8) to start nc.
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