From 0350d87ee44be7eebdfc3a8f135a28a2eb65a209 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Kienow <matthew_kienow@rapid7.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 17:42:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add background process ID output

---
 msfrpcd | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/msfrpcd b/msfrpcd
index 91ec1ad328..9cce6339e9 100755
--- a/msfrpcd
+++ b/msfrpcd
@@ -87,7 +87,11 @@ def start_rpc_service(opts, frameworkOpts, foreground)
       $stdout.puts "[*] #{RPC_TYPE.upcase}RPC ready at #{Time.now}."
     else
       $stderr.puts "[*] #{RPC_TYPE.upcase}RPC backgrounding at #{Time.now}..."
-      exit(0) if Process.fork()
+      child_pid = Process.fork()
+      if child_pid
+        $stderr.puts "[*] #{RPC_TYPE.upcase}RPC background PID #{child_pid}"
+        exit(0)
+      end
     end
   rescue ::NotImplementedError
     $stderr.puts "[-] Background mode is not available on this platform"
@@ -207,6 +211,7 @@ if $PROGRAM_NAME == __FILE__
       $stderr.puts "[*] JSON-RPC starting on #{opts['ServerHost']}:#{opts['ServerPort']} (#{opts['SSL'] ? "SSL" : "NO SSL"})..."
       $stderr.puts "[*] URI: /api/v1/json-rpc"
       $stderr.puts "[*] JSON-RPC server log: #{ws_log}" unless foreground
+      $stderr.puts "[*] JSON-RPC server PID file: #{ws_rpc_pid}" unless foreground
 
       ws_conf_full_path = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(msfbase), WS_CONF))