> 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-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PIDFILE". -- Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>