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I recently installed a software package that needs a command called 'daemon' to be able to start up. Slackware doesn't seem to have this command and I'm unable to find it. Where can I get it and what exactly is it that it does?
"daemon" is a generic term for a program that runs in the background. Perhaps the instructions are telling you to run a command which starts a daemon......e.g. after installing cups, you start it by entering "cupsd".
Please tell us what the package is and exactly what the instructions say.
I found a system call called "daemon", but not a BASH command. If you run an exectuable that want to run in background, I'm betting it uses this system call.
If you source the file "/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions" then your bash shell will have the function available called "daemon".
So, in the program's startup script add this line somewhere at the top:
It compiles and runs just fine in Slackware, but usually it's also possible to just edit the rc-scripts so that they don't need it. The daemon function in /etc/init.d/functions is not compatible with this (how else...)
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