Package: dhcp Version: 2.0pl5-19.1 Severity: normal
start-stop-daemon does not delete the pidfile it uses to identify the process it is killing, with the expectation that said process will remove the file on its own. This is not the case with dhcpd. Therefore, /etc/init.d/dhcp stop is not safe in the case that dhcpd has already been shutdown. start-stop-daemon will just attempt to kill whichever process has been assigned the old pid. I believe that this is a problem with start-stop-daemon, and have filed bug #298585. However, as you can see in the discussion attached to it, the dpkg folks believe that it is a problem with the script which invokes start-stop-daemon. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages dhcp depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii netbase 4.20 Basic TCP/IP networking system -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
