Hmm, that's a good point, the manpage says: -p, --pidfile pid-file Check whether a process has created the file pid-file.
and since I was actually cloning things to have two sshd processes running on different ports, presumably start-stop-daemon was seeing the :22 one and not complaining. I guess that means this is Invalid. -- openssh-server init script contains irrelevant --pidfile argument to start-stop-daemon https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277120 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs