Hello Steven Roose.
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 02:15:10AM +0200, Steven Roose wrote:
[...]
> The daemon does not make it's own pidfile, so I added following relevant
> variables:
> PIDFILE=/pidfile
> START_ARGS=" --make-pidfile"
> STOP_ARGS=" --remove-pidfile"
[...]
> --- a/debian/init-d-script
> +++ b/debian/init-d-script
> @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ do_stop_cmd() {
> # sleep for some time.
> start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 \
> $STOP_ARGS \
> - --exec $DAEMON
> + ${PIDFILE:+--pidfile ${PIDFILE}} --name $NAME --exec $DAEMON
> [ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2
> # Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
> rm -f $PIDFILE
[...]
While I think your patch looks good please note that there's no
point in using STOP_ARGS=" --remove-pidfile" given the last quoted
line above which will unconditionally remove any pidfile.
The workaround for your issue is thus very simple. Just drop
STOP_ARGS=" --remove-pidfile"
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
