[syslog-ng] Does -d imply -F

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Tue Dec 12 09:03:23 CET 2006


the manual page has not been updated to syslog-ng 2.0.x yet, it is a
copy of the 1.6.x manpage.

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 13:40 -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> According to the admittedly out-of-date man page:
>      -d, --debug
>           Set "debug mode".  Prints out various messages  to  aid
>           in  debugging  and stops it from becoming a daemon.  To
>           activate debugging in the yacc parser, either use  this
>           option twice or combine with -v.
> 
>      -F, --foreground
>           Don't fork into background.
> 
> Do, does -d imply -F as -d "stops it from becoming a daemon."? Looking
> at src/main.c, this does not seem to be the case. do_fork=0 only when
> -F is specified.
> 
-- 
Bazsi



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