Re: how to start an obnoxious daemon at boot?
Ethan Benson wrote:
> hi,
>
> I have a BestPower UPS (it is a `smart' one) and I am trying to start
> the monitoring daemon with a /etc/init.d/ script like everything else
> (using the init.d/skeleton for a template), however i have a problem:
>
> this daemon does not create .pid files
You don't have to use pid files. Just kill it using:
start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --quiet --exec $DAEMON
where $DAEMON is whatever path+name you used to start it.
Last June, Peter Alexiou <peter.alexiou@lib.monash.edu.au> said
he'd make a checkups package. Perhaps he can provide an
unofficial one?
(There are of course lots of packages dump-mode UPS monitors. I
like and have packaged powstatd. Slinkified version available at
http://www.debian.org/~psg/powstatd_1.3-1slink0_i386.deb)
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