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Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> I discovered that I was misleading in my bug title and description. I
> had forgotten _why_ I switched the pidfile parameter.
>
> Try doing /etc/init.d/gkrellmd stop and you will notice that
> start-stop-daemon fails with the message that the pid does not exist
> (not the file the actual process).
>
> If you ps aux|grep gkrellmd, gkrellmd is still alive, not terminated.
>
> This is because --pidfile to start-stop-daemon gets the process of the
> pre-daemon process, which terminates after the exec. The daemon has a
> different pid than the startup process and that is why you need to let
> the daemon create the pidfile not start-stop-daemon.
>
> As I said, my init script is right, yours doesn't work. It creates the
> pidfile, you're right about that, but it's the wrong pid.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/gkrellmd start
Starting gkrellmd: gkrellmd.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux |grep gkrellmd
gkrellmd 8031 10.8 0.0 11372 1512 ? S 21:30 0:00
/usr/bin/gkrellmd
ghostbar 8044 0.0 0.0 3060 716 pts/1 S+ 21:31 0:00 grep
gkrellmd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/gkrellmd stop
Stopping gkrellmd: gkrellmd.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux |grep gkrellmd
ghostbar 8057 0.0 0.0 3060 716 pts/1 S+ 21:31 0:00 grep
gkrellmd
This is my init file:
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case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/gkrellmd.pid \
--exec $DAEMON -m -b -- $DAEMON_OPTS
echo "$NAME."
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid
echo "$NAME."
;;
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Regards.
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Jose Luis Rivas. San Cristóbal, Venezuela. PGP: 0xCACAB118
http://ghostbar.ath.cx/{about,acerca} - http://debian.org.ve
`ghostbar' @ irc.debian.org/#debian-ve,#debian-devel-es
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