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I'm trying to daemonize a process under a different user.

In my init.d, I have a service which looks a little bit like this:

...
start() {
    echo "Starting mydaemon..."
    daemon --user someuser --name mydaemon mycommand
}
...

(entire script here: http://pastebin.com/bvpnsHgn)

However, all I get is daemon: command not found.

I checked that daemon() is declared in /etc/init.d/functions, but still, I cannot seem to use it.

How can I resolve this?

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Did you make sure to source the /etc/init.d/functions library in your service's init.d script?

You'd need this in your init.d script:

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

If this is already there, can you please post your daemon's start script?

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  • I added that line, and it still does the same. I don't follow what you want me to paste? The entire file I gave the snippet from? Nov 30, 2013 at 23:05
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    @CJxD Yep. Please do so.
    – ewwhite
    Nov 30, 2013 at 23:19
  • pastebin.com/bvpnsHgn Nov 30, 2013 at 23:22
  • @CJxD I'm sorry. Can you try this with . /etc/init.d/functions, as I wrote in my answer?
    – ewwhite
    Nov 30, 2013 at 23:26
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    Nevermind! It did work, the file just wasn't uploading to the server when I saved it. D'oh! Nov 30, 2013 at 23:31
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If you are missing the scripts, you can simply (re)install them this should get daemon: command not found issue resolved

yum install -y initscripts

Hope this helps

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    It is conceivable that a system could be messed up in a way where that command would help. It is however not a very likely explanation. The older answer provides a much more likely explanation of the symptoms (and it turned out to be the correct one).
    – kasperd
    Nov 28, 2016 at 21:10

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