The patch was being worked on. Chukwa-677 captures this. On Tuesday, December 18, 2012, Alan Cabrera wrote:
> Is there a Jira issue to capture this problem? Just curious. :) > > Regards, > Alan > > On Dec 18, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Eric Yang wrote: > > Yes, this is a known problem. In bin/chukwa script, there should be some > logic to check for pid file before starting another instance of the > process. This would prevent the overwriting pid file problem. Patches are > welcome. > > regards, > Eric > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:57 PM, GuoWei <wei....@wbkit.com<javascript:_e({}, > 'cvml', 'wei....@wbkit.com');> > > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> If I forgot to stop collector before start a collector. Then I will get >> message the Collector.pid file can not be written. >> Then I can not stop collector by the command "sudo bin/chukwa collector >> stop". Because start twice will assign new PID and new port to collector. >> And the new PID is not written into the Collector.pid file. >> And I can not find the PID by the port because the port is not 8080. >> Does anyone meet the same problem ? And how to stop collector/agent in >> this situation? >> >> Thanks >> >> > >