> 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
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
> 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
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