[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes:
> I am running exim as two daemons. One is listening on port 25, the
> other does periodic queue runs only when I am online. The queue runner
> exim is killed off when I go offline.
[snip]
> How can I make start-stop-daemon check for a process' existence before
> I trying to kill it? I'd really love to get rid of this error message.
After some experimentation, it seems that start-stop-daemon doesn't
print anything if you pass both the --quite and --exec flags, so this
would be one option. You could also just redirect the output with
">/dev/null" at the end.
Actually, I found an old version (1.4.0.7) of start-stop-daemon, when
it was written in Perl, and it does have the behaviour you want.
Maybe this is a bug in start-stop-daemon.
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