[Ddclient-forum] [ ddclient-Patches-1893144 ] Foreground patch

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Patches item #1893144, was opened at 2008-02-13 22:18
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: John Palkovic (drjohnny)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Foreground patch

Initial Comment:
I am running ddclient as a dyndns.org client on a debian etch system. I  had some problems with the startup script in the debian package. It was also out of date with no ssl support.

I decided to patch ddclient to run under the control of runit (http://smarden.org/runit), a unix service supervisor akin to svscan (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/svscan.html). I created the patch and have been running with it for a week with no issues to report. The patch adds a -foreground argument. When called with this argument, ddclient runs as a daemon but does not fork(). This is appropriate for use with runit or svscan (or launchd on a darwin system). There are changes to the daemon logic, so I would appreciate any comments. I will attach the patch with the upload button.

-John Palkovic
 13 Feb 2008



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>Comment By: wimpunk (wimpunk)
Date: 2008-02-13 23:00

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As far as I can see, you don't need a patch, you just need the daemon=0
option.
I'm also wondering why you had some startup problems with the debian
package.  I didn't got any report about that from other people.

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