Randy McMurchy wrote: > > It reports that the daemon is running with such-and-such PID, but > that PID really doesn't exist except at the moment the status was > checked.
IIRC, in the past, we had used the -x switch to pidof and that was removed in favor of '-o $PPID -o $$'. The -x should definately be removed as this would be broken with backround scripts (popbeforesmtp is the only example I can come up with right off the top of my head. It's written in perl and would fail to show with -x). Now both are used with the LSB style pidofproc function. Will test with all shells and get back in a few moments regarding $$ and $PPID to see if that is possibly the issue. Randy what shell is linked to /bin/sh on your system? Anyway, there is definately a bug if it's returning the PID of the running script, but there is also a problem in your script as you should be passing the full path of the binary to statusproc; Well, unless that is a symlink in which case pidof will find the PIDs of the target. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
