Use daemon() to spawn syslogd and klogd daemons.
-Erik
diff --git a/sysklogd/klogd.c b/sysklogd/klogd.c
index d5e330b..95d4eea 100644
--- a/sysklogd/klogd.c
+++ b/sysklogd/klogd.c
@@ -124,18 +124,10 @@
}
}
-static void daemon_init (char **argv, char *dz, void fn (void))
-{
- setsid(); /* start a new session? */
- strncpy(argv[0], dz, strlen(argv[0]));
- fn();
- exit(0);
-}
-
extern int klogd_main(int argc, char **argv)
{
/* no options, no getopt */
- int opt, pid;
+ int opt;
int doFork = TRUE;
/* do normal option parsing */
@@ -150,15 +142,10 @@
}
if (doFork == TRUE) {
- pid = fork();
- if (pid < 0)
- exit(pid);
- else if (pid == 0) {
- daemon_init (argv, "klogd", doKlogd);
- }
- } else {
- doKlogd();
+ if (daemon(0, 1) < 0)
+ perror_msg_and_die("daemon");
}
+ doKlogd();
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}