#1 Draft man page for daemonic
Daemonic, which seems to be a moribund project and likely to simply be
replaced by launchd support, as of July 2006, but which is still used
(without the user even being asked) by several Fink packages, has no
documentation. This man page is an unoffiical first take at providing
some. It only covers usage of daemonic from the end-user perspective;
while it mentions the developer features (i.e. commands that are intended
to be run from installer scripts), they are not documented in detail since
their actual operation is unknown except to the authors of daemonic and
those to whom they have explained these features directly. The man
page DOES cover MacOS X 10.4 troubleshooting, including getting
daemonic startup scripts to actually work at all (many of them as written
by the packages that install them simply do not function as intended, as
of 10.4.6 and up, and possibly earlier 10.4 minor versions as well.)
Installation instructions: Place the man page's .gz file in your /usr/local/
share/man/man8/ directory (NOT under /sw/share/man - this is not part
of the Fink distribution but manually installed, so it should not be in /sw/
.) If this directory does not exist, create it, and add it to your MANPATH
environment variable in your shell configuration file. You may need to add
this variable yourself manually. See the documentation for your shell
(typically bash or tcsh) for how to do so. You do not need to extract the
man page from its GZip file (though there is no harm in doing so). If you
didn't understand any of that: Extract the man page and save it some
place such as your Documents folder. In Terminal, go to that folder and
type "man ./daemonic.8.gz"
The man page is only provided in English.
If you have any corrections or additions to make to this, please send them
to smccandlish at the e-mail service known as gmail (.com).
daemonic man page (draft)