Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.25 Hi,
the manual page for start-stop-daemon says -s|--signal signal With --stop, specifies the signal to send to processes being stopped (default 15). and later on, Note: unless --pidfile is specified, start-stop-daemon behaves similar to killall(1). start-stop-daemon will scan the process table looking for any processes which match the process name, uid, and/or gid (if specified). Any matching process will prevent --start from starting the daemon. All match- ing processes will be sent the KILL signal if --stop is specified. For dae- mons which have long-lived children which need to live through a --stop you must specify a pidfile. which seems to say that the default signal is 9 (KILL) rather than 15 (TERM). This is contradictory and confusing. The manual page should be clear on what's the default signal to send, and it would be nice to use the symbolic namn, not just the numeric value. The paragraph above saying KILL is used seems to have been introduced as a patch for bug #211856, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211856 Regards, /Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]