Use daemon() to spawn syslogd and klogd daemons.

 -Erik

diff --git a/klogd.c b/klogd.c
index d5e330b..95d4eea 100644 (file)
--- a/klogd.c
+++ b/klogd.c
@@ -124,18 +124,10 @@ static void doKlogd (void)
        }
 }
 
-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 @@ extern int klogd_main(int argc, char **argv)
        }
 
        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;
 }

diff --git a/sysklogd/klogd.c b/sysklogd/klogd.c
index d5e330b..95d4eea 100644 (file)
--- a/sysklogd/klogd.c
+++ b/sysklogd/klogd.c
@@ -124,18 +124,10 @@ static void doKlogd (void)
        }
 }
 
-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 @@ extern int klogd_main(int argc, char **argv)
        }
 
        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;
 }

diff --git a/sysklogd/syslogd.c b/sysklogd/syslogd.c
index cc42c29..e83ce48 100644 (file)
--- a/sysklogd/syslogd.c
+++ b/sysklogd/syslogd.c
@@ -562,18 +562,9 @@ static void doSyslogd (void)
        } /* for main loop */
 }
 
-static void daemon_init (char **argv, char *dz, void fn (void))
-{
-       setsid();
-       chdir ("/");
-       strncpy(argv[0], dz, strlen(argv[0]));
-       fn();
-       exit(0);
-}
-
 extern int syslogd_main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
-       int opt, pid;
+       int opt;
        int doFork = TRUE;
 
        char *p;
@@ -635,15 +626,10 @@ extern int syslogd_main(int argc, char **argv)
 #endif
 
        if (doFork == TRUE) {
-               pid = fork();
-               if (pid < 0)
-                       exit(pid);
-               else if (pid == 0) {
-                       daemon_init (argv, "syslogd", doSyslogd);
-               }
-       } else {
-               doSyslogd();
+               if (daemon(0, 1) < 0)
+                       perror_msg_and_die("daemon");
        }
+       doSyslogd();
 
        return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }

diff --git a/syslogd.c b/syslogd.c
index cc42c29..e83ce48 100644 (file)
--- a/syslogd.c
+++ b/syslogd.c
@@ -562,18 +562,9 @@ static void doSyslogd (void)
        } /* for main loop */
 }
 
-static void daemon_init (char **argv, char *dz, void fn (void))
-{
-       setsid();
-       chdir ("/");
-       strncpy(argv[0], dz, strlen(argv[0]));
-       fn();
-       exit(0);
-}
-
 extern int syslogd_main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
-       int opt, pid;
+       int opt;
        int doFork = TRUE;
 
        char *p;
@@ -635,15 +626,10 @@ extern int syslogd_main(int argc, char **argv)
 #endif
 
        if (doFork == TRUE) {
-               pid = fork();
-               if (pid < 0)
-                       exit(pid);
-               else if (pid == 0) {
-                       daemon_init (argv, "syslogd", doSyslogd);
-               }
-       } else {
-               doSyslogd();
+               if (daemon(0, 1) < 0)
+                       perror_msg_and_die("daemon");
        }
+       doSyslogd();
 
        return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }