Your message dated Fri, 23 May 2008 07:16:19 -0430
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and subject line Re: Bug#475932: pid is wrong pid
has caused the Debian Bug report #475932,
regarding /etc/init.d/gkrellmd stop fails
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Package: gkrellmd
Version: 2.3.1-1
Severity: normal
The pidfile for gkrellmd is not created when it is started from
/etc/init.d/gkrellmd, probably because start/stop daemon isn't the one doing
the daemonizing. The solution is to use --pidfile as a gkrellmd option rather
than start-stop-daemon option.
E.g.
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \
--exec $DAEMON -- --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid $DAEMON_OPTS
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> On Thu, 22 May 2008 21:33:21 -0430
> Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> This is my init file:
>> 8<-------------
>> case "$1" in
>> start)
>> echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
>> start-stop-daemon --start --quiet
>> --pidfile /var/run/gkrellmd.pid \ --exec $DAEMON -m -b -- $DAEMON_OPTS
> ^^^^^
> I didn't see that -m -b. It must be new because I wouldn't have need
> to make the fix I did if they were there before. Those are
> --make-pidfile and --background which cause start-stop-daemon to do the
> deamonization instead of the program itself (gkrellmd). I think it is
> better to let the program daemonize itself (according to man
> start-stop-daemon:
>
> Typically used with programs that don't detach on their own.
> This option will force start-stop-daemon to fork before
> starting the process, and force it into the background.
> WARNING: start-stop-daemon cannot check the exit status if the
> process fails to execute for any reason. This is a last resort,
> and is only meant for programs that either make no sense
> forking on their own, or where it's not feasible to add the code
> for them to do this themselves.
>
> Don't mean to be a pain; I fixed it myself and then when the package
> wanted to update I didn't see the -m -b. In any event I'm going to
> leave my changes in place for now, and I recommend you switch to the
> method I use because -m -b is meant as a last resort.
>
> Up to you of course.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel
>
I sent those same lines to you early[1]... In fact, that was the change
I made in -2 version for closing this bug ;)
Regards.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=475932#22
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