XPost: uk.comp.os.linux   
   From: dan@djph.net   
      
   On 2025-09-10, Mike Scott wrote:   
   > On 10/09/2025 09:42, Dan Purgert wrote:   
   >> 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   
   FreeBSD+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) ?   
   >>   
   >>   
   > Thanks for the reply, but no. That assumes the existence of the   
   > mechanism missing AFAICS from this daemon.   
      
   I'm not sure what you mean here.  "Logrotate" is a tool that exists.   
      
   Granted, the systems here have been getting in-place upgrades for the   
   last decade; maybe logrotate has since been replaced in 'clean' installs   
   (or it's not a default part of the installation and I've just completely   
   forgotten that).   
      
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