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18 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
joel
99904243da mdoc: remove EOL whitespace.
Approved by:	re (blanket)
2013-09-13 19:19:21 +00:00
jmg
1b9dc8f60c add support for writing the pid of the daemon program to a pid file so
that daemon can be used w/ rc.subr and ports can use the additional
functionality, such as keeping the ldap daemon up and running, and have
the proper program to signal to exit..

PR:		bin/181341
Submitted by:	feld
Approved by:	re (glebius)
2013-09-13 16:57:28 +00:00
trociny
3092b09c77 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
trociny
7e6fe25ca5 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
trociny
03503d2c1c 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
trociny
15a9e88162 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
ghelmer
8685a56d47 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
ghelmer
203029c5bf 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
ivoras
4c8ac4b5a8 Slightly improve wording. 2010-05-17 11:18:33 +00:00
trhodes
ec817b37e0 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
trhodes
2ade333019 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
pjd
e8bb52f26c Teach daemon(8) how to use pidfile(3). 2005-08-24 17:24:39 +00:00
ru
6cc4b6c220 Added the EXIT STATUS section where appropriate. 2005-01-17 07:44:44 +00:00
ru
9f45c1d92e mdoc(7) fixes. 2004-07-07 19:57:16 +00:00
phk
86b461c079 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
trhodes
b2a8459286 MFS: 1.2.2.2 2003-02-05 19:16:18 +00:00
ru
c98f3a3f5e mdoc(7) police: minor formatting tweaks. 2001-08-31 12:52:50 +00:00
mike
6fa2f09167 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