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

Thank you Marcus, and the rest of you :)

--Chad


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On Sunday 3. May 2020 kl. 16:53, Marcus MERIGHI <mcmer-openbsd@tor.at> 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?
>
> 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...
>
> Read rc.subr(8), look for "rc_bg".
>
> Marcus