On snein 11 July 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:22:28AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes: > > > On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 08:59:24 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> + postrotate > > >> + [ -f /var/run/foo.pid ] && kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/foo.pid` > > >> + endscript > > > > > > Probably better to recommend using start-stop-daemon, as it's more > > > robust and should properly handle for example the case of a stale pid > > > file pointing to the wrong binary (which with HUP might terminate an > > > unsuspecting victim). > > > > Good point. I now have: > > postrotate > > start-stop-daemon -K -p /var/run/foo.pid -s HUP -x /usr/sbin/foo > >-q endscript > > Heh, that's just makes me want to weep at the awkwardness of duplicating > information that should be encapsulated in the init script. :) I really > think "/etc/init.d/$foo reload" makes a more suitable example, but I at > least don't think the above is wrong - so no objections. I'll just focus > on making sysvinit scripts obsolete by way of upstart, I think. :) I would also use Steve's suggestion as the most straightforward example. Proposal seconded either with Rus's line quoted above or Steve's suggested line for postrotate. Thijs
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