severity 256790 minor thanks On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 12:14:27PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > You can't use s-s-d's --exec option to choose the daemon to stop if > the file named by the argument of that option has changed since the > process was started. The process is not a running instance of the > new executable. > > Solutions: > > * Stop the daemon in the prerm, before the executable file is updated > * Run s-s-d with --stop --pidfile (+ optionally --name) (but not --exec) Please consider this bug a request to add the above information to start-stop-daemon's manual page, then. This could go in a .SH CAVEATS section, for example. -- G. Branden Robinson | When dogma enters the brain, all Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity ceases. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Anton Wilson http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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