On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, dizzy wrote:
> It was suggested that thease aqquired stale pids come from
> killing diald by hand
> ie: kill -9 pid.
AAAIIIIIIEEE! I haven't had to use a kill -9 for years with
Linux. (Recently I got trapped in Solaris and had to, though.
:-)
Don't kill -9 anything, it doesn't give the process an
opportunity to clean up.
Don't even kill diald. Use the facility your distribution
provides for starting and stopping daemons. When I want to stop
diald I enter the command
/etc/init.d/diald stop
and I restart it with
/etc/init.d/diald start
> I tried that and it did not leave behind a stale pid. So Im
> not sure what the problem is but neverthe less I know how to
> fix this delimma if it occurs again.
I just tried both ... in my case the pidfile is cleaned up with
kill, and it is not cleaned up with kill -9.
Ed
--
Ed Doolittle <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Everything we do, we do for a reason." -- Peter O'Chiese
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
