Re: rc.d: Webserver is removing daemonization - now what?

On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 04:53:42PM +0200, Marcus MERIGHI wrote:
> chad.hoolie@protonmail.com (Chad Hoolie), 2020.05.03 (Sun) 15:43 (CEST):
> > So the folks over at my webserver is removing its daemonization
> > feature, telling its users to use systemd/upstart/a process supervisor
> > instead.
>
> Ugly move by upstream!
>
> > But what does this mean to my webserver's startup script in /etc/rc.d,
> > isn't it dependent on the webserver's ability to daemonize?
>

what webserver are you using?

> You could have shown the content of that rc.d(8) script...?
>
> > Pretty sure I can't manually daemonize it by adding a "&" to the end
> > of my rcexecs so...
>

#rc.local
/path/to/server &

> Read rc.subr(8), look for "rc_bg".
>
> Marcus