[lug] simple bash Q.

[John Karns]

Am re-sending, as the 1st attempt failed.

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On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, D. Stimits said:

> Perhaps this is a tough one to answer, but I am curious if the daemon
> bash function is useable on most distros? Could I use the same function
> (or some obvious corollary) on SuSE, Mandrake, or Debian? Is anyone here
> familiar with the init script functions for those distros? I'm trying to
> refine a script, and possibly make a version for other distributions,
> though I only have RH to test on. The obvious difference is that install
> locations and paths would change, I'm more interested in init script
> function differences.

The equivalent function for SuSE seems to be startproc:

       startproc [-f] [[-n ]+/-<prio>] [-s] [-t  sec]  [-u  user]
       [-g  group]  [-v]  [-e]  [-l  log_file|-q]  [-p  pid_file]
       /path/to/executable [arguments for executable]

# which startproc
/sbin/startproc

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net