Cool. Thanks for the feedback.

@Arne: Please merge this patch.

-Michael

On 28 Jul 2021, at 19:31, Holger Sunke holger.sunke@posteo.de wrote:

This works for me, thank you.

Am 27.07.21 um 10:59 schrieb Michael Tremer:

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Since systemd, many programs no longer behave like a well-behaved daemon. To avoid any extra solutions, this patch adds a -b switch which will start a program in the background and throw away any output. The behaviour remains unchanged for any other programs. Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer michael.tremer@ipfire.org

---

src/initscripts/system/functions | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/initscripts/system/functions b/src/initscripts/system/functions index d610a524d..e44a2b4a1 100644 --- a/src/initscripts/system/functions +++ b/src/initscripts/system/functions @@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ getpids() #******************************************************************************* loadproc() {

• local background="" local pidfile="" local forcestart="" local nicelevel=""

@@ -448,6 +449,10 @@ loadproc() while true do case "${1}" in

• 	-b)
  

• 		background="1"
  

• 		shift 1
  

• 		;;
  -f)
  	forcestart="1"
  	shift 1
  

@@ -506,8 +511,16 @@ loadproc() cmd="nice -n "${nicelevel}" ${cmd}" fi

• ${cmd}
• evaluate_retval # This is "Probably" not LSB compliant, but required to be compatible with older bootscripts

• if [ -n "${background}" ]; then

• (
  

• 	${cmd} &>/dev/null
  

• ) &
  

• evaluate_retval
  

• else

• ${cmd}
  

• evaluate_retval # This is "Probably" not LSB compliant, but required to be compatible with older bootscripts
  

• fi
• return 0

}