[114767] trunk/dports/finance/bitcoind/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 14, 2013, at 16:30, easieste at macports.org wrote:

> Revision
> 114767
> Author
> easieste at macports.org
> Date
> 2013-12-14 14:30:06 -0800 (Sat, 14 Dec 2013)
> Log Message
> 
> finance/bitcoind: Note how to start daemon in background.
> Modified Paths
> 
> 	• trunk/dports/finance/bitcoind/Portfile
> Diff
> 
> Modified: trunk/dports/finance/bitcoind/Portfile (114766 => 114767)
> 
> --- trunk/dports/finance/bitcoind/Portfile	2013-12-14 22:27:23 UTC (rev 114766)
> +++ trunk/dports/finance/bitcoind/Portfile	2013-12-14 22:30:06 UTC (rev 114767)
> 
> @@ -69,5 +69,9 @@
> 
>  
> 
>  3.  Edit ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf with RPC credentials 
> 
>  
> 
> -4.  Start ${prefix}/sbin/bitcoind .
> 
> +4.  Start in background via:
> +    
> +    cmd$ ${prefix}/sbin/bitcoind -daemon
> +

If there’s a daemon process users are expected to run in the background, that would be an ideal reason to use the startupitem keywords to create a launchd plist.

http://guide.macports.org/chunked/reference.startupitems.html