Package: hylafax-server
Version: 4.3.1-7
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice if hylafax would store its process id (in /var/run
preferably) so that one can monitor this service with arbitrary
monitor software. At the moment no hylafax server stores its process
id somewhere.
With current start-stop-daemon this task can be out-sourced to Debian
tools without the need to change the HylaFAX code. It would be nice
if you could apply the attached patch to the rc script so that it will
write the hfaxd pid into a file.
Regards,
Joey
--
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Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.
--- hylafax.orig 2008-02-05 12:56:59.000000000 +0100
+++ hylafax 2008-02-05 12:57:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
HYLAFAX_HOME=/var/spool/hylafax
FAXGETTY=/usr/sbin/faxgetty
FAXMODEM=/usr/sbin/faxmodem
+PIDFILE=/var/run/hfaxd.pid
OLDPROT=
NEWPROT=
@@ -207,7 +208,7 @@
p=$(ps --no-headers -C hfaxd -o pid)
if [ -n "$p" ]
then
- start-stop-daemon --stop --exec /usr/sbin/hfaxd -- $BINDTO $NEWPROT $OLDPROT $SNPP
+ start-stop-daemon --stop --exec /usr/sbin/hfaxd --pidfile $PIDFILE -- $BINDTO $NEWPROT $OLDPROT $SNPP
sleep 1
p=$(ps --no-headers -C hfaxd -o pid)
[ -n "$p" ] && kill $p
@@ -265,7 +266,7 @@
start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/sbin/faxq
log_progress_msg "hfaxd"
- start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/sbin/hfaxd -- $BINDTO $NEWPROT $OLDPROT $SNPP
+ start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/sbin/hfaxd --make-pidfile --pidfile $PIDFILE --background -- -d $BINDTO $NEWPROT $OLDPROT $SNPP
cd ${HYLAFAX_HOME}/etc
devices="`echo_fax_devices`"
