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   From: dan@djph.net   
      
   On 2025-09-10, Mike Scott wrote:   
   > On 04/09/2025 08:26, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
   >> Mike Scott ottsonline.org.uk.invalid> writes:   
   >>> I've been using a program 'daemon' on freebsd   
   >>> (eg   
   >>> man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=daemon&sektion=8&manpath=F   
   eeBSD+14.3-RELEASE+and+Ports)   
   >>>   
   >>> which will run arbitrary programs as daemons, handling all the   
   >>> necessary "house-keeping" for them.   
   >>>   
   >>> I can't find a ready-to-roll linux version - is there one please?   
   >> If you want an (almost) identical interface then in Debian (and   
   >> presumably therefore also Ubuntu), there’s a command of the same name   
   >> and similar behavior:   
   >>   
   >> https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/daemon/daemon.1.en.html   
   >   
   > Sorry, back again.   
   >   
   > I've been playing with this and there seems to be an important feature   
   > missing on linux that's in the BSD version: how to do logfile rotation?   
   > [...]   
   > Have I missed something?   
      
   logrotate(8) ?   
      
      
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