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Updated documentation to be more relevant to modern (2018)

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systems.
Updated copyright notice.
Fixed start-stop-daemon.c so that it will compile.
Updated install instructions.
Removed references to "obsolete" directory which, fittingly,
no longer exists.
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Jesse Smith
2018-02-23 17:34:30 -04:00
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Start-stop-daemon is the program that is used by the DEBIAN style init
Start-stop-daemon is the program that is used by the Debian style init
scripts to start and stop services. This program is part of the "dpkg"
package by Ian Jackson. However there is also a seperate C version (the
original is in perl) available written by Marek Michalkiewicz. I'm including
original is in Perl) available written by Marek Michalkiewicz. I am including
it for your convinience.
Note that the latest debian dpkg packages (4.0.18 and later) contain
Note that the latest Debian dpkg packages (4.0.18 and later) contain
a much improved update-rc.d. This code is almost a year old.
The original announcement follows:

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static void
do_help(void)
{
printf("\
start-stop-daemon for Debian Linux - small and fast C version written by\n\
Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>, public domain.\n"
VERSION "\n\
\n\
Usage:
start-stop-daemon -S|--start options ... -- arguments ...\n\
start-stop-daemon -K|--stop options ...\n\
start-stop-daemon -H|--help\n\
start-stop-daemon -V|--version\n\
\n\
Options (at least one of --exec|--pidfile|--user is required):
-x|--exec <executable> program to start/check if it is running\n\
-p|--pidfile <pid-file> pid file to check\n\
-u|--user <username>|<uid> stop this user's processes\n\
-n|--name <process-name> stop processes with this name\n\
-s|--signal <signal> signal to send (default 15)\n\
-a|--startas <pathname> program to start (default <executable>)\n\
-t|--test test mode, don't do anything\n\
-o|--oknodo exit status 0 (not 1) if nothing done\n\
-q|--quiet | -v, --verbose\n\
\n\
Exit status: 0 = done 1 = nothing done (=> 0 if --oknodo) 2 = trouble\n");
printf("start-stop-daemon for Debian Linux - small and fast C version written by\n"
"Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>, public domain. %s\n"
"\n"
"Usage:\n"
" start-stop-daemon -S|--start options ... -- arguments ...\n"
" start-stop-daemon -K|--stop options ...\n"
" start-stop-daemon -H|--help\n"
" start-stop-daemon -V|--version\n"
"\n"
"Options (at least one of --exec|--pidfile|--user is required):\n"
" -x|--exec <executable> program to start/check if it is running\n"
" -p|--pidfile <pid-file> pid file to check\n"
" -u|--user <username>|<uid> stop this user's processes\n"
" -n|--name <process-name> stop processes with this name\n"
" -s|--signal <signal> signal to send (default 15)\n"
" -a|--startas <pathname> program to start (default <executable>)\n"
" -t|--test test mode, don't do anything\n"
" -o|--oknodo exit status 0 (not 1) if nothing done\n"
" -q|--quiet | -v, --verbose\n"
"\n"
"Exit status: 0 = done 1 = nothing done (=> 0 if --oknodo) 2 = trouble\n",
VERSION);
}