On 2018/06/02 23:07, Il Ka wrote: > rc.subr(8) uses pgrep(1)/pkill(1) to control daemons > using their command lines.
This is intentional. pid files can easily get out of sync with the expected process (example: daemon starts, writes a pid file, later it crashes. at any point between the crash and you trying to stop/restart the daemon another process could be assigned the same pid, then the wrong process is signalled). The timescale could be days/weeks/longer. (I believe there is still a possible race with pkill, but there the window is tiny, much less than a second.)
