start-stop-daemon on CentOS/RHEL5 (and probably other RedHat derivatives)

Some packages depend on the start-stop-daemon command which is not available in CentOS (or the dag repositories, AFAIK) but the solution is to pull down the source for dpkg and compile it. Basically do a ./configure at the top level of the package and then do a make, make install the utils directory

[root@moodle_dev utils]# make
gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2  -Wl,-O1 -o start-stop-daemon  start-stop-daemon.o ../get
opt/libopt.a
[root@moodle_dev utils]# ls
enoent    enoent.o  Makefile.am  start-stop-daemon    start-stop-daemon.o
enoent.c  Makefile  Makefile.in  start-stop-daemon.c
[root@moodle_dev utils]# make install
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/dpkg-1.13.26/utils'
test -z "/usr/local/lib/dpkg" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/lib/dpkg"
 /usr/bin/install -c 'enoent' '/usr/local/lib/dpkg/enoent'
test -z "/usr/local/sbin" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/sbin"
 /usr/bin/install -c 'start-stop-daemon' '/usr/local/sbin/start-stop-daemon'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dpkg-1.13.26/utils'