Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
snip
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:22:28PM -0600, Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | or how 'bout
> | pidof xntpd
>
> Well, internally, pidof is doing the same grep tricks. It's
> _inherently_ unreliable. Suppose you have a multiuser system with
> people running private daemons for some reason. Or an unfortunate
> resemblance between command names. Or whatever.
>
snip
>
> Many daemon authors have gone to a little trouble to log pids where they're
> easy to get to and unambiguous. Make use of their efforts.
>
Sound reasoning as always, Cameron. I had not thought about the possibility of
multiples. On my system at least, xntpd does NOT log anything in /var/run. I do not
know about ntp v4. I have not used it yet. I have never used pidof in any scripts and
probably won't now that I know there are problems.
Thanks for the insight.
Bret
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