Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:19:41 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Javier_Mart=EDn_Rueda?= <jmrueda@diatel.upm.es> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: How to launch services that do not fork to background using the rc infrastructure? Message-ID: <50FEAE0D.5090505@diatel.upm.es>
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The typical and simple rc.d script to launch a service has, esentially,
the following:
. /etc/rc.subr
name=SERVICE
rcvar=SERVICE_enable
command="/usr/local/sbin/PROGRAM"
pidfile=/var/run/${name}.pid
SERVICE_enable=${SERVICE_enable:-"NO"}
load_rc_config ${name}
run_rc_command "$1"
One of the ports (net/spread4) runs a PROGRAM that does not fork to
background as a daemon and which does not have any command-line option
to ask it to do so. Therefore, the rc.d script never finishes, with
various consequences (system boot stops, no pid file generated...)
I tried adding a "&" to SERVICE_flags to see if it made it run in the
background, but it didn't do the trick. I also quickly checked the
/etc/rc.subr code to see if there is any way of forcing a background
launch, but couldn't see anything. No luck searching the web or problem
reports either.
So, my question is whether there is a non-obvious way of forcing a
program to start in background using the rc infrastructure.
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