severity 429457 important tag 429457 moreinfo thanks On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Olleg Samoylov wrote: > I doesn't know why only I see it. /etc/init.d/fcron does not have rm -f > pidfile. And fcron on start see pid file and silently exit. The patch is > applied.
You should *never* need to remove pidfiles on init scripts if they are being handled properly. If you do, something else is broken. The daemon needs to remove it itself, AND it also needs to cope with stale pidfiles. Anything else is broken and won't work right on all possible scenarios. So the patch is not the way to fix the problem. Looking at fcron.c, fcron does remove the pidfile unless you kill -9 it, and it uses locking to know if an existing pidfile is good or not, which should be good even for kill -9 as long as you let it use flock(), which Debian builds do. Did you actually HAVE any malfunction problems with Debian-built fcron and its pidfile? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
