-d option collision

[Eric Pancer]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Phillip G Deneault <deneault at wpi.edu> wrote:
> I noticed that in the newest version of argus, the configuration file
> argus.conf sets up Argus running as a daemon process, however, the startup
> script also configures argus are a daemon process using the -d setting and
> this has the double-effect of making argus run in foreground mode.
>
> Which is completely fine, except when one is trying to install argus and
> reboots the system for the first time, it hangs the booting process while
> Argus starts in user mode. :-)

Why does one need the "-d" flag during start up? On BSD based systems,
I use the following start up procedure.

if [ -d /usr/local/sbin ]; then
 if [ -x /usr/local/sbin/argus ]; then
  if [ -f /etc/argus.conf ]; then
   echo -n ' argus';
    /usr/local/sbin/argus
  fi
 fi
fi

Sounds like this might be an operating system issue.

- Eric