On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:40:01AM +0100, Oliver Geisen wrote: > Hello, > > i have encountered problems using initscripts to stop self-forking > daemons like "Apache". > Normally i would use "killproc httpd" to do this. > > This (mostly) don't work, because the function "killproc" uses the > pidlist returned by "getpids" and this will use "pidof" utility to > obtain process-ids of all running instances of "httpd".
The BLFS bootscripts don't use killproc on apache. The use apachectl and evaluate_retval. > This ensures the master-pid (if any) will preceed the list, and so if > the master get killed, it would kill all of its childs himself. > Maybe someone could change this in the global distribution files of LFS. My fuzzy memory recalls a problem with mysql and one of the core lfs-bootscripts functions. Might be worth a look in the archives. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
