Pour info, la ligne 83 de /etc/init.d/functions est la ligne qui débute la fonction d'éxécution de démon. Cette fonction est recopiée ci-desous :
# A function to start a program.
daemon() {
# Test syntax.
local gotbase= force=
local base= user= nice= bg= pid=
nicelevel=0
while [ "$1" != "${1##[-+]}" ]; do
case $1 in
'') echo $"$0: Usage: daemon [+/-nicelevel] {program}"
return 1;;
--check)
base=$2
gotbase="yes"
shift 2
;;
--check=?*)
base=${1#--check=}
gotbase="yes"
shift
;;
--user)
user=$2
shift 2
;;
--user=?*)
user=${1#--user=}
shift
;;
--force)
force="force"
shift
;;
[-+][0-9]*)
nice="nice -n $1"
shift
;;
*) echo $"$0: Usage: daemon [+/-nicelevel] {program}"
return 1;;
esac
done
# Save basename.
[ -z "$gotbase" ] && base=${1##*/}
# See if it's already running. Look *only* at the pid file.
if [ -f /var/run/${base}.pid ]; then
local line p
read line < /var/run/${base}.pid
for p in $line ; do
[ -z "${p//[0-9]/}" -a -d "/proc/$p" ] && pid="$pid $p"
done
fi
[ -n "${pid:-}" -a -z "${force:-}" ] && return
# make sure it doesn't core dump anywhere unless requested
ulimit -S -c ${DAEMON_COREFILE_LIMIT:-0} >/dev/null 2>&1
# if they set NICELEVEL in /etc/sysconfig/foo, honor it
[ -n "$NICELEVEL" ] && nice="nice -n $NICELEVEL"
# Echo daemon
[ "${BOOTUP:-}" = "verbose" -a -z "$LSB" ] && echo -n " $base"
# And start it up.
if [ -z "$user" ]; then
$nice $*
else
$nice runuser -s /bin/bash - $user -c "$*"
fi
[ "$?" -eq 0 ] && success $"$base startup" || failure $"$base startup"
}
