Re: Argument to start_daemon, use of --

[Jordon Bedwell <jordon@envygeeks.com>]

On 8/1/2010 9:03 AM, Malte Forkel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The example init script init.d.lsb.ex provided by dh-make 0.46 contains
> this call to start_daemon:
>
>     start_daemon -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
>
> This always passes "--" as first argument to my daemon. Wouldn't
>
>     start_daemon -p $PIDFILE -- $DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS
>
> be the proper call?
>
> I haven't found a reference to "--" in the LSB init function
> documentation, but the implementation of start_daemon in
> /lib/lsb/init-function (from lsb-base) handles "--" explicitly. The use
> of "--" is documented in bash(1) though. Is this a convention? What
> status has it?
>
> Thanks,
> Malte

According to the man page it should be:
start_daemon -p $PIDFILE $EXECUTABLE $EXECTUABLE_OPTS