Your message dated Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:11:53 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#508778: /etc/init.d/thttpd: grep for PID is wrong
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regarding /etc/init.d/thttpd: grep for PID is wrong
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Package: thttpd
Version: 2.23beta1-5
Severity: important
The grep-commands in 'ps ax | grep -q "^$PID"' in /etc/init.d/thttpd is
wrong. Since the process-numbers in the first column of "ps ax" are
right-aligned, this command often doesn't find the process-number.
This results in wrongly reporting that thttpd is not running, and
so starting/stopping/restarting/etc. sometimes does not work.
Additionally, in combination with logrotate, thttpd is not restarted
after logfile-rotation, which causes thttpd to write its logs to a
deleted file.
Solution:
The problem can be solved by replacing the above grep-command each
time it appears in /etc/init.d/thttpd by:
'ps ax | grep -q "^ *$PID"'
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (60, 'testing'), (50,
'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages thttpd depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility
thttpd recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 2.25b-5
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