Subject: Re: The Daemon command
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd@2006.salmi.ch>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/03/2006 18:53:36
Mark Saad --> netbsd-users (2006-05-03 12:28:38 -0400):
> Hello
>  Anyone out there familiar with the daemon command from FreeBSD ? Does 
> NetBSD have a equivalent  ?

NetBSD doesn't have daemon(8), but since there's daemon(3), FreeBSD's
daemon(8) should be usable on a NetBSD system. Some minor changes seem
to be needed though: see the `pidfile_(open|write|remove)' and `errc'
functions used in daemon.c.


HTH, Jukka

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