Re: Whom the BIND newest vulnerability concerns?
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 05:57:14AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 11:55:47AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> >
> > To do this properly you should kill the daemon as the user it runs under. So
> > to stop the LDAP server you would do:
> > sudo -u ldap kill `cat /var/run/slapd.pid`
>
> Not if there daemons that are running as root and writing pid files to
> /var/run.
Note that the latest start-stop-daemon has a new --chuid and --makepid
option to help handle these things. The init script will need to remove
the pid file once there is a succesful stop (unless the daemon already
handles this of course).
Ben
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