Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:36:24PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> ser2net, a small daemon in a package maintained by me, cannot write
> its own pidfile. Since it forks and detaches by default,
> start-stop-daemon's --make-pidfile option is of no use as well, since
> the daemon that ends up running has a different pid than s-s-d's
> child.
>
[..]
>
> How am I supposed to properly lsb-ize ser2net's init script? Is it ok
> to directly call s-s-d from the init script or do I need other
> workarounds?
Perhaps you could patch the daemon to add pidfile writing?
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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