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supervise-daemon: clarify documentation about configuring daemon not to fork

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@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Beginning with OpenRC-0.21 we have our own daemon supervisor,
supervise-daemon., which can start a daemon and restart it if it
terminates unexpectedly.
The following is a brief guide on using this capability.
## Use Default start, stop and status functions
If you write your own start, stop and status functions in your service
@ -16,8 +18,10 @@ Any deamon that you would like to have monitored by supervise-daemon
must not fork. Instead, it must stay in the foreground. If the daemon
itself forks, the supervisor will be unable to monitor it.
If the daemon has an option to instruct it not to fork, you should add this
to the command_args_foreground variable listed below.
If the daemon can be configured to not fork, this should be done in the
daemon's configuration file, or by adding a command line option that
instructs it not to fork to the command_args_foreground variable shown
below.
## Variable Settings