Re: Field size in ps
Raul Miller writes:
> > Only works if you're guaranteed that there's only one running instance
> > of the daemon.
John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote:
> ???
>
> hasler/~ pidof xterm
> 30423 30422 30421 30420 30419
> hasler/~
xterm is not a daemon
> > I seem to recally either policy or the packaging manual recommending
> > against using pidof for start/stop scripts.
>
> Can't find any mention of it. Are you thinking of killall?
Probably.
However, I was assuming that the pidfile is only relevant for determining
which process to kill (at which point it should be wiped out -- but that's
a detail we might be overlooking in some packages.). [I suppose it could
be used as a loose check to see whether the daemon is still running,
but that suffers a similar problem.]
If there's no need for the pidfile to uniquely represent the daemon
process, then there's no need for the pidfile.
--
Raul
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