Would it be possible to backport 4cd407ec/r366098 [1] to stable/12 such that daemon will have -H in future 12.x releases? 12 expected EOL will be ~2024 it would be nice to have this feature in daemon such ports can start using it sooner rather than wait until 12's EOL. [1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/rS366098
CC the committer of base r366098
Looks like 4cd407ec933b can be cherry-picked directly on stable/12.
ping?
Any possibilities this can move forward?
A commit in branch stable/12 references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=7fa95d69f10827d0b02607682a2c4a1513d658e5 commit 7fa95d69f10827d0b02607682a2c4a1513d658e5 Author: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2020-09-24 02:44:58 +0000 Commit: Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2021-07-28 12:38:38 +0000 dd a new option (-H) to daemon(8) to catch SIGHUP and re-open output_file file when received. The default system log rotation mechanism (newsyslog(8)) requires ability to send signal to a daemon in order to properly complete rotation of the logs in an "atomic" manner without having to making a copy and truncating original file. Unfortunately our built-in mechanism to convert "dumb" programs into daemons has no way to handle this rotation properly. This change adds this ability, to be enabled by supplying -H option in addition to the -o option. PR: 255198 Reviewed by: markj, rpokala (manpages) (cherry picked from commit 4cd407ec933b81d9d0f733532d29426416cccc06) usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.8 | 18 ++++++++++++-- usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 2 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)