Re: rc script for a program - detach from tty?

I'm sorry, I just woke up.

daemon(8) will probably work for you.  Not daemon(7).

~Paul

On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 9:43 AM Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am trying to find a way to run this program and make it detach from the
> tty.
> I can get it to start if I run it in the background, but maybe there is a
> better way than this?
> Also when it starts, it launches several children and I have to kill it
> using this brutal way, which doesn't look quite dandy.
>
> PS: I have also been able to run it with supervisor, but killing it still
> requires this very brutal method :-)
>
> I hope someone can help modify this script to handle the start|stop in a
> much cleaner way.
>
>
> <CUT>
>
> #! /bin/sh
> #
> # $FreeBSD$
> #
>
> # PROVIDE: qclusterd
> # REQUIRE: DAEMON
> # KEYWORD: shutdown
>
> #
> # Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf to qcluster:
> #
> #qcluster_enable="YES"
>
> . /etc/rc.subr
>
> name="qcluster"
> rcvar="${name}_enable"
> start_cmd="${name}_start"
> stop_cmd="${name}_stop"
> qcluster_logfile="/opt/mailman/mm/var/logs/${name}.log"}
>
> qcluster_start(){
>     chdir /opt/mailman/mm/
>     /usr/bin/su -m mailman -c "/opt/mailman/mm/bin/django-admin qcluster
> --pythonpath /opt/mailman/mm/ --settings settings" &
> }
>
> qcluster_stop(){
>         kill -9 `ps ax | grep "django-admin qcluster" | grep -v grep | awk
> '{print $1}'`
>         echo "."
> }
>
> load_rc_config ${name}
> run_rc_command "$1"
> </CUT>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
> +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
> "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-)
>


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