Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0.23.2 Severity: wishlist start-stop-daemon(8) says: | -p|--pidfile pid-file | Check for processes whose process-id is specified | in pid-file.
This has lead me to believe that "start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile some.pid.file some.daemon will" creates that pid file. In reality (after doing RTFS), I know that this call will check if the daemon is already running and will not re-invoke the daemon if the process mentioned in the pid file still exists. Also, it should be documented that this mechanism will break if a daemon doesn't write a pid file that only contains the pid of the process. Generally, the docs for start-stop-daemon assume familiarity with its source that is not present with the normal user. I hope that this will be fixed. Thanks. Greetings Marc -- System Information Debian Release: 2.0 Kernel Version: Linux torres 2.0.36 #3 Fri Nov 27 14:17:39 CET 1998 i586 unknown Versions of the packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.0.7t-1 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files) ii libstdc++2.8 2.90.29-0.6 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version) ii ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-8.8 Video terminal manipulation - shared librari
