Re: Release-critical Bugreport for December 7, 1998

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@debian.org>]

Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
>  [snip] 
>  I'm fighting this one... in my own pacakge (wdm). There's something fishy
>  about start-stop-daemon <-> [wx]dm; it's used like this:
> 
> 	start-stop-daemon --signal 0 --pidfile /var/run/xdm.pid
>                                        ^^^^^^^
>                                        Branden, please note the documented
>                                        flag is --pidfile not --pid
> 
>  but it doesn't always work as intended. In fact, most of the time it
>  doesn't work as intended. Any suggestions as how to detect if [wx]dm is
>  already running? I'm currently looking at something like "ps axh | grep
>  xdm", but I don't like it.

Any reason not to use pidof?