Re: downtimed and start-stop-daemon.

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Mats Erik Andersson, le Tue 03 Apr 2012 02:08:19 +0200, a écrit :
> I have observed that my package "downtimed" was not running
> properly on GNU/Hurd, since the upstream detection was not
> properly implemented.
> 
> Amending this in [1],

Thanks!

> I now find that "invoke-rc.d" is not handling the daemonisation
> properly: a restart will leave the old daemon running, but still start
> a new instance.  Is there some knowledge I should acquire on this
> matter?

IIRC it's simply a yet-not-investigated bug somewhere in what
invoke-rc.d uses.

> P.S. Last week I mended netkit-ftp and linux-ftpd to run
> also on GNU/Hurd, so you are invided to comment on their
> functionality.

Thanks!

Samuel