Re: how to deinstall not-running daemons
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 07:43:44PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels <lists@lina.inka.de> spake forth:
> How do i do this? Unfortunatelly I havbe a daemon which dont write a pid
> file and which can't be run as daemon. So i have to start it with "daemon &"
> and killing it by start-stop-daemon --exec daemon will produce an error
> code if the daemon was not running or if the daemon can't be stoped.. dont
> know how to detect which of both is the problem. Never seen a init script
> which did that right, even the one in the policy manual isbroken.
You may find the following start-stop-daemon options useful, then:
--background, --pidfile /var/run/foo.pid, --make-pidfile
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