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Re: daemon program?

From Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>
Newsgroups uk.comp.os.linux, alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject Re: daemon program?
Date 2025-09-10 08:42 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <slrn10c2efi.27s.dan@djph.net> (permalink)
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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) ?


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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
      Re: daemon program? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-10 08:27 +0000
        Re: daemon program? Chris Elvidge <chris@internal.net> - 2025-09-10 12:04 +0100
          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
              Re: daemon program? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-11 18:48 +0100
      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
          Re: daemon program? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-11 08:49 +0100
            (resolved) Re: daemon program? Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2025-09-11 11:02 +0100
              Re: (resolved) Re: daemon program? Chris Elvidge <chris@internal.net> - 2025-09-11 13:53 +0100
                Re: (resolved) Re: daemon program? Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2025-09-12 16:19 +0100
              Re: (resolved) Re: daemon program? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-11 22:17 +0000

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