Re: Debian shishi package bug

[Simon Josefsson]

Russ Allbery <address@hidden> writes:

> There is a serious bug filed against the Debian shishid package saying
> that shishid doesn't go into the background.  This definitely breaks the
> init script system and needs to be fixed.
>
> One can hack around this by telling start-stop-daemon to background the
> daemon, but really it should background itself.  Can this be fixed
> upstream?  I don't see an option telling it to background.

The --background parameter to start-stop-daemon appear to work, and
seem to be the fastest way to solve this problem, so I propose to do
it that way.  Do you see any problem with this?  I've asked the
original reported to test it.

Hopefully, shishid in 0.0.24 will support a --nofork parameter, and I
can change the default to fork into the background.

I am sorry for the slow response to this, I have been on vacation.

Thanks,
Simon