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On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:39:27AM +1200, Tim Philips wrote:
> I have had a good look on the http://smarden.org/runit/ site for a run 
> script to get ypserv running under (djb) supervise.  I have done many 
> google searches and found nothing of interested, we are using an RPM 
> installation of ypserv version 2.8-0.72E.  
> 
> The man page for ypserv doesn't show it as being able to be run in the
> foreground so I used fghack without luck to attempt to run in.

The ypserv program from ypserv-2.13 provides a -d option to run it in
debug mode, also preventing it from backgrounding.  This is not optimal
as, according to the documentation, lots of debug output will be printed
to standard error.

It may be worth to request a ``run in foreground'' switch independently
from running in debug mode; shouldn't be that hard to implement, look
for debug_flag in ypserv/ypserv.c:main().  It might help to point
upstream to this page

 http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/unix-daemon-design-mistakes-to-avoid.html

Regards, Gerrit.