Re: daemon program?

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On 2025-09-10, Mike Scott wrote:
> On 10/09/2025 09:42, Dan Purgert wrote:
>> On 2025-09-10, Mike Scott wrote:
>>> On 04/09/2025 08:26, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>>> Mike Scott<usenet.16@sc
>>> ottsonline.org.uk.invalid> writes:
>>>>> I've been using a program 'daemon' on freebsd
>>>>> (eg
>>>>> man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=daemon&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+14.3-RELEASE+and+Ports)
>>>>>
>>>>> which will run arbitrary programs as daemons, handling all the
>>>>> necessary "house-keeping" for them.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>
>>> Sorry, back again.
>>>
>>> I've been playing with this and there seems to be an important feature
>>> missing on linux that's in the BSD version: how to do logfile rotation?
>>> [...]
>>> Have I missed something?
>> 
>> logrotate(8) ?
>> 
>> 
> Thanks for the reply, but no. That assumes the existence of the 
> mechanism missing AFAICS from this daemon.

I'm not sure what you mean here.  "Logrotate" is a tool that exists.

Granted, the systems here have been getting in-place upgrades for the
last decade; maybe logrotate has since been replaced in 'clean' installs
(or it's not a default part of the installation and I've just completely
forgotten that).

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daemon program? Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2025-09-04 08:08 +0100
  Re: daemon program? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-04 08:26 +0100
    (resoilved) Re: daemon program? Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2025-09-04 08:38 +0100
      Re: (resoilved) Re: daemon program? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-09-04 09:22 +0000
        Re: (resoilved) Re: daemon program? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-09-04 06:12 -0400
          Re: (resoilved) Re: daemon program? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-04 20:54 +0000
      Re: (resoilved) Re: daemon program? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-05 04:05 +0000
        Re: (resoilved) Re: daemon program? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-05 08:16 +0100
          Re: (resolved) Re: daemon program? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-05 07:55 +0000
    Re: daemon program? Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2025-09-10 09:01 +0100
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          Re: daemon program? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-10 19:32 +0000
            Re: daemon program? Chris Elvidge <chris@internal.net> - 2025-09-11 13:46 +0100
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      Re: daemon program? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-09-10 08:42 +0000
        Re: daemon program? Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2025-09-10 10:20 +0100
          Re: daemon program? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-09-10 09:37 +0000
            Re: daemon program? Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-09-10 11:08 +0100
              Re: daemon program? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-09-10 10:54 +0000
              Re: daemon program? Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2025-09-10 12:25 +0100
            Re: daemon program? Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2025-09-10 12:20 +0100
              Re: daemon program? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-09-10 11:31 +0000
                Re: daemon program? Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2025-09-10 16:52 +0100
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              Re: (resolved) Re: daemon program? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-11 22:17 +0000

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