Commit Graph

24 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Mikolaj Golub
76462499eb Document -r option in SYNOPSIS and usage statement.
Submitted by:	Andrey Zonov <andrey zonov.org>
MFC after:	3 days
2012-06-04 09:25:01 +00:00
Mikolaj Golub
c60d51f964 On a child exit, call waitpid(2) to clean up the process table.
Submitted by:	Andrey Zonov <andrey zonov.org>
MFC after:	1 week
2012-06-04 09:22:22 +00:00
Mikolaj Golub
53c49998d5 If permitted protect the supervisor against pageout kill.
Suggested by:	Andrey Zonov <andrey zonov org>
MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-02-19 10:38:55 +00:00
Mikolaj Golub
b6193c2409 Add -r option to restart the program if it has been terminated.
Suggested by:	Andrey Zonov <andrey zonov org>
MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-02-19 10:36:29 +00:00
Mikolaj Golub
195fc497a2 If the supervising process receives SIGTERM, forward it to the spawned
process.  Normally it will cause the child to exit followed by the
termination of the supervisor after removing the pidfile.

This looks like desirable behavior, because termination of a
supervisor usually supposes termination of its charge. Also it will
fix the issue with stale pid files after reboot due to init kills a
supervisor before its child exits.

MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-02-19 10:23:51 +00:00
Mikolaj Golub
2ad4302785 The pidfile_open(3) is going to be fixed to set close-on-exec in order
not to leak the descriptor after exec(3). This raises the issue for
daemon(3) of the pidfile lock to be lost when the child process
executes.

To solve this and also to have the pidfile cleaned up when the program
exits, if a pidfile is specified, spawn a child to exec the command
and wait in the parent keeping the pidfile locked until the child
process exits and remove the file.

Reported by:	Andrey Zonov <andrey zonov org>
Suggested by:	pjd
Reviewed by:	pjd
MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-02-19 10:20:37 +00:00
Guy Helmer
b34650e320 Change the notes about the pidfile to include Doug's preference
for pre-creating the pidfile with appropriate owner and permissions.

Requested by dougb
2012-02-01 16:40:59 +00:00
Guy Helmer
704523b073 Revert 229667: After some discussion of this change, it seems it is
better to leave the pidfile open where it was. Add a note to the
man page describing pidfile strategies to use if the daemon is to
be run as a user other than root.
2012-01-25 14:50:12 +00:00
Guy Helmer
074db536b3 Allow daemon(8) to run pidfile_open() before relenquishing privileges
so pid files can be written in /var/run when started as root.

I do not expect this to cause any security issues, but if anyone objects
it could be easily reverted.

PR:		bin/159568
MFC after:	4 weeks
2012-01-05 22:48:36 +00:00
Ivan Voras
27ad5065fe Slightly improve wording. 2010-05-17 11:18:33 +00:00
Ed Schouten
71ccf09269 The last big commit: let usr.sbin/ use WARNS=6 by default. 2010-01-02 11:07:44 +00:00
Peter Wemm
12d5df2b3c Unbreak rev 1.7's getopt usage. The -f switch does not take an argument.
The stray ':' was from the defunct '-g' group arg.
2007-04-19 16:43:30 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
e6d4b388b9 Improve previous commit by using setusercontext(3) and removing the group
option.  Bump doc date for manual page changes.

Reviewed by:	rwatson, ru, will (older version)
2007-03-19 12:12:53 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
15543aadb3 Initialize *pfh to NULL to quiet a gcc warning, not part of my original
commit because it was not part of the new code.
2007-03-09 09:40:23 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
12d7249e24 Add support for dropping privileges to a specified user and/or group.
PR:		108523
Submitted by:	Dmitri Alenitchev <dmitri@dworlds.ru> (original version)
Reviewed by:	mpp (first reply to PR)
2007-03-09 09:33:19 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
c6262cb601 Teach daemon(8) how to use pidfile(3). 2005-08-24 17:24:39 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
a866e17077 Added the EXIT STATUS section where appropriate. 2005-01-17 07:44:44 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
2410103c1d mdoc(7) fixes. 2004-07-07 19:57:16 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
846be7bd0e Give daemon(8) the ability to create a pid-file. Since the target program
does not know anything about the pid-file and we don't keep a babysitting
process for the task, the pid-file will linger.

Submitted by:	mi
PR:	56398
2004-06-02 06:48:13 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
54ede02d10 add FBSDID 2003-07-06 12:44:11 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
052238b16c style.Makefile(5) 2003-04-04 17:49:21 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
a7d4e0173c MFS: 1.2.2.2 2003-02-05 19:16:18 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
217758f8e6 mdoc(7) police: minor formatting tweaks. 2001-08-31 12:52:50 +00:00
Mike Barcroft
bd06a3ec97 Add a new utility that runs an executable detached from the
controlling terminal.

Discussed on:	-hackers
Obtained from:	BSD/OS
2001-08-30 04:48:02 +00:00