daemon function isn't working in CentOS 6.4

Question

I'm trying to daemonize a process under a different user.

In my init.d, I have a service which looks a little bit like this:

...
start() {
    echo "Starting mydaemon..."
    daemon --user someuser --name mydaemon mycommand
}
...

However, all I get is daemon: command not found.

I checked that daemon() is declared in /etc/init.d/functions, but still, I cannot seem to use it.

How can I resolve this?

ewwhite · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-30T23:19:07.357

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Did you make sure to source the /etc/init.d/functions library in your service's init.d script?

You'd need this in your init.d script:

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

If this is already there, can you please post your daemon's start script?

edited Nov 30 '13 at 23:19

answered Nov 30 '13 at 22:57

ewwhite

I added that line, and it still does the same. I don't follow what you want me to paste? The entire file I gave the snippet from? – Chris Watts Nov 30 '13 at 23:05
1

@CJxD Yep. Please do so. – ewwhite Nov 30 '13 at 23:19
http://pastebin.com/bvpnsHgn – Chris Watts Nov 30 '13 at 23:22
@CJxD I'm sorry. Can you try this with `. /etc/init.d/functions`, as I wrote in my answer? – ewwhite Nov 30 '13 at 23:26
Still have the same issue with either syntax. – Chris Watts Nov 30 '13 at 23:30
1

Nevermind! It did work, the file just wasn't uploading to the server when I saved it. D'oh! – Chris Watts Nov 30 '13 at 23:31
@CJxD What exactly worked? – ewwhite Nov 30 '13 at 23:32
let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/11763/discussion-between-cjxd-and-ewwhite) – Chris Watts Nov 30 '13 at 23:33

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 28 '16 at 20:37

1

If you are missing the scripts, you can simply (re)install them this should get daemon: command not found issue resolved

yum install -y initscripts

Hope this helps

answered Nov 28 '16 at 20:37

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It is conceivable that a system could be messed up in a way where that command would help. It is however not a very likely explanation. The older answer provides a much more likely explanation of the symptoms (and it turned out to be the correct one). – kasperd Nov 28 '16 at 21:10

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