Bug#298585: Not a bug

2005-03-10 Thread jdthood
> Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why can't start-stop-daemon check the pidfile after stopping the > daemon and remove it if left around? I see nothing wrong with that behavior except for the fact that it is different from the current behavior. The current behavior is reasonable, so I

Bug#298585: Not a bug

2005-03-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> When start-stop-daemon is run with --stop and --pidfile, it does not >> delete the old pidfile. > > True, but this is not necessarily a bug. > > The daemon should delete its own pidfile. > > Admittedly, many daemons fail to do this. For such daemons the

Bug#298585: Not a bug

2005-03-09 Thread Thomas Hood
> When start-stop-daemon is run with --stop and --pidfile, it does not > delete the old pidfile. True, but this is not necessarily a bug. The daemon should delete its own pidfile. Admittedly, many daemons fail to do this. For such daemons the caller can simply do "rm -f $PIDFILE" after "start-s