Re: rc.d and non daemon servers

[Amitai Schlair <schmonz%schmonz.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost> 
wrote:

> What is the preferred way, from a rc.d startup script, for dealing with
> a server that does not fork in the background?

I don't know if I'd call it "preferred," but the rc.d scripts in
pkgsrc for mail/qmail-run and net/djbdns-run deal with this, and I can
report that they've worked reliably for several years.