On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:03:09AM -0500, Liam Quin alleged: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 03:59:57AM -0800, SI Reasoning wrote: > > I added killall dhcpcd before I removed dhcpcd.pid and > > that took care of the stray running dhcpcd's left in > > memory. > > You might want something like this: > > if test -f /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.pid > then > if kill -0 `cat /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.pid` > then > # still running > echo process `cat /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.pid` already running > exit 0 > else > /bin/rm -f /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.pid > fi > fi > > Liam > > -- > Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > Ankh: irc.sorcery.net www.valinor.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org > Author, Open Source XML Database Toolkit, Wiley August 2000 > Co-author: The XML Specification Guide, Wiley 1999; Mastering XML, Sybex 2001
If you are going to check the pid, then you should make sure that the possibly running process is actually dhcpcd... diff /proc/`cat /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.pid`/exe /sbin/dhcpcd or something along that nature.
