Re: downtimed and start-stop-daemon.

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 11:55:58 +0200, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> A further investigation displays that the stop call using start-stop-daemon,
> as implemented in the init-script, is also malfunctioning with GNU/Hurd.
> It is the standard form
> 
>   s-s-d --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PID --name $NAME
> 
> but it returns status 1 in spite of the executable running and the pid-file
> being in existence with correct value. Does the problem seem familiar?
> There is no functionality flaw with GNU/Linux or with GNU/kFreeBSD.

Are you using dpkg 1.16.2, s-s-d --name has been bogus up to now on
GNU/Hurd.

thanks,
guillem