Re: [gentoo-user] How do I deamonize every service?

[Claudio Roberto França Pereira]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 13:50, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM, LK <linuxrocksrulers@××××××××××.com> wrote:
>> On 2012, Feb 14, Tuesday,  13:30, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>  -b, --background
>>>             Background immediately.  This is useful for startup
>>>             scripts which don't disable link messages for carrier
>>>             status.
>>>
>>> So to use that option, edit /etc/conf.d/net and use:
>>>
>>>  dhcpcd_eth0="--background"
>> That works.
>>
>> On Arch Linux there is a variable with all important things to
>> be run, like dhcpcd, ssh, apache, and so on. If I want i can
>> simply prepend a '@' to be begin to start it in the background.
>> I miss that ease on gentoo, where i dont want to wait
>> for sshd or  dhcpcd to start. Now the above solution for
>> dhcpcd is not general.
>>
>> I dont want to take the specific way for each service.
>>
>> TIA.
>
> If you emerge ifplugd it should automatically let network start
> immediately at boot, and then do the actual connection in the
> background. It also handles unplug/plugging of the cable without you
> needing to do anything.
>

wicd also has a daemon that does this.
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Claudio Roberto França Pereira