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3.2 Starting Become daemons


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3.2.1 Synopsis

 
become --daemon [option…]

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3.2.2 Usage

The following options are appropriate to this mode:

-h
--help

Display a (fairly verbose) help message describing the various command line options and exits successfully.

-u
--usage

Display a terse summary of the command line options and exits successfully.

-v

Display's Become's version number and exits successfully.

-d
--daemon

Start a Become server, instead of processing a request. Become will read its command line options, read in the configuration file (and verify that it's correct) and then fork into the background to wait for incoming requests. Become relinquishes all setuid privileges (by setting all uids to the real uid) when it enters daemon mode. It is therefore only really useful to run a daemon as the superuser.

-p port
--port=port

Listen for requests on port. This option is overridden by the port option in the configuration file.

-f file
--config-file=file

Read configuration from file, instead of the default (set at compile time, usually `/etc/become/become.conf').

The syntax of the configuration file is described in The configuration file.


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