Add --background option to daemonize the bot

[user/henk/code/ruby/rbot.git] / bin / rbot

diff --git a/bin/rbot b/bin/rbot
index 14b57d7ceacdf64e3ccd70bcef3d479b99610a36..812c44f59043c88f18922014be339dcf5efec7da 100755 (executable)
--- a/bin/rbot
+++ b/bin/rbot
@@ -36,12 +36,16 @@ opts = GetoptLong.new(
   ["--debug", "-d", GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT],
   ["--help",  "-h", GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT],
   ["--trace",  "-t", GetoptLong::REQUIRED_ARGUMENT],
-  ["--version", "-v", GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT]
+  ["--version", "-v", GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT],
+  ["--background", "-b", GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT]
 )
 
 $debug = false
+$daemonize = false
+
 opts.each {|opt, arg|
   $debug = true if(opt == "--debug")
+  $daemonize = true if(opt == "--background")
   $opts[opt.sub(/^-+/, "")] = arg
 }
 
@@ -79,6 +83,7 @@ if ($opts["help"])
   puts "  -h, --help         this message"
   puts "  -v, --version      version information"
   puts "  -d, --debug        enable debug messages"
+  puts "  -b, --background   background (daemonize) the bot"
   puts "config directory defaults to ~/.rbot"
   exit 0
 end