On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:32:32PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote: > So, the question now must be, do we allow start-stop-daemon to defy calling > logic and NOT stop a daemon? How do we know we're not supposed to stop the > daemon based on a custom signal? The answer is we can't. So instead of > > start-stop-daemon --stop -s HUP -p /var/run/dnsmasq.pid > > we need to write > > kill -s HUP $(< /var/run/dnsmasq.pid)
... or implement a stand-alone --signal (or -s) in start-stop-daemon, allowing it to be called like this: start-stop-daemon --signal HUP -p /var/run/dnsmasq.pid Regards, Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd
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