On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 06:47:07AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Peter Eisentraut ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Any Debian init script is affected by this bug.  If you kill the process 
> > in a way that the PID file is not removed, start-stop-daemon will 
> > complain.  Improving the PID file handling in samba won't change that 
> > materially because kill -9 won't be affected by that.  The question is 
> > perhaps whether s-s-d should be so chatty in this regard, but that is 
> > not a question that can be answered here.

> IMHO, just close the bug.

No, I consider it a real bug if smbd doesn't clean up PID files that it
created on exit.  Obviously people running around with kill -9 are going to
make a fair mess of things no matter what, but that's no reason to not
handle cleaning issues during a normal exit.

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