sshd: when a daemon forks

Daniel L. Miller dmiller at amfes.com
Mon Apr 23 01:12:32 BST 2007


Alex Smith wrote:
> Mildred wrote:
>   
>> Sorry, even if I read the ssh manual page and help output i didn't see
>> the -D flag that keeps sshd in the foreground.
>>
>> But the question is still here, it is possible that some daemons do not
>> provide this kind of feature, then how do you use them with upstart ?
>>
>> Mildred
>>     
>
> Run the daemon as a state as a temporary solution. This means just have 
> a pre-start script that starts the daemon and a post-stop script that 
> kills it, and have no exec/script stanza. Also include the service keyword.
>
> Of course, the long term solution would be to patch the daemon.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>   
Would the djb fghack or pgrphack assist here?

-- 
Daniel




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