I discovered that I was misleading in my bug title and description. I had forgotten _why_ I switched the pidfile parameter.
Try doing /etc/init.d/gkrellmd stop and you will notice that start-stop-daemon fails with the message that the pid does not exist (not the file the actual process). If you ps aux|grep gkrellmd, gkrellmd is still alive, not terminated. This is because --pidfile to start-stop-daemon gets the process of the pre-daemon process, which terminates after the exec. The daemon has a different pid than the startup process and that is why you need to let the daemon create the pidfile not start-stop-daemon. As I said, my init script is right, yours doesn't work. It creates the pidfile, you're right about that, but it's the wrong pid. Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org No more sea shells: Daniel's Weblog http://cshore.wordpress.com
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