![]() ![]() So on the face value it seems that the command in question first tells the program not to run in the background with -n, then specify NONE for the pid file, to indicate it is not a daemon 1, and then right after that specify & to send it into the background. If my understanding is correct, pid files are used with daemons, that is when a program is run in the background. The ampersand & seems to mean to request that the command is run in the background, see, for example here. The rsyslogd is started and controlled by init(8). Writing a pid file, use the reserved name "NONE" (all This option must be used if multiple instances of ![]() Specify an alternative pid file instead of the default The question came to live as a result of reading this line of code: /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -niNONE & ![]() I want to understand a little bit better, what a background process is. ![]()
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