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Chris Watts
Asked: 2013-12-01 14:53:36 +0800 CST

daemon function isn't working in CentOS 6.4

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I'm trying to daemonize a process under a different user.

In my init.d, I have a service which looks a little bit like this:

...
start() {
    echo "Starting mydaemon..."
    daemon --user someuser --name mydaemon mycommand
}
...

(entire script here: http://pastebin.com/bvpnsHgn)

However, all I get is daemon: command not found.

I checked that daemon() is declared in /etc/init.d/functions, but still, I cannot seem to use it.

How can I resolve this?

centos

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Did you make sure to source the /etc/init.d/functions library in your service's init.d script?

    You'd need this in your init.d script:

    # Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

    If this is already there, can you please post your daemon's start script?

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  2. If you are missing the scripts, you can simply (re)install them this should get daemon: command not found issue resolved

    yum install -y initscripts

    Hope this helps

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