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dd a new option (-H) to daemon(8) to catch SIGHUP and re-open output_file file…

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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)

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sobomaxAuthored on Sep 24 2020, 2:44 AM
markjCommitted on Jul 28 2021, 12:38 PM
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rG3312bc6f109d: bsdinstall: Only show menu if there are more items to be installed
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