Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dan Purgert Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux.ubuntu Subject: Re: (resoilved) Re: daemon program? Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 09:22:15 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <109bdsh$1kas0$1@dont-email.me> <109bfl0$1kmk2$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:22:16 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8af020ea61513cbaf42a169e36484eac"; logging-data="1770212"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19z6MXacWslDLXQigVe+RfSLgrV4Ext3KQ=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AfKMECgQmhTrHA11pXjnmpKajmE= Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.os.linux:23706 alt.os.linux.ubuntu:212290 On 2025-09-04, Mike Scott wrote: > On 04/09/2025 08:26, Richard Kettlewell wrote: >> Mike Scott writes: >>> I've been using a program 'daemon' on freebsd >>> [...] >>> I can't find a ready-to-roll linux version - is there one please? >> >> If you want an (almost) identical interface then in Debian (and >> presumably therefore also Ubuntu), there’s a command of the same name >> and similar behavior: >> >> https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/daemon/daemon.1.en.html >> [...] > > Many thanks. It's odd, but 'man -k daemon' turned up nothing (mint > zara) [...] That's not surprising -- the "entirety" of manpages aren't installed by default, just the ones relevant to those applications that are installed. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860