Re: start-stop-daemon grammar???

["Peter Tobias" <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>]

Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why this 'works' (i.e., starts the routing daemon):
> echo "Starting routing daemon" ; ${NET}/routed -s
> 
> and this doesn't:
> echo "Starting routing daemon" ; start-stop-daemon --start 
>      --quiet --exec ${NET}/routed -s

Oops, I forgot to add -- between "routed" and "-s". The correct entry
should look like this:

echo "Starting routing daemon" ; start-stop-daemon --start 
      --quiet --exec ${NET}/routed -- -s


I'll fix that for the next netstd release.


Thanks,

Peter

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