Re: pidofproc missing

[lrhorer <lrhorer@satx.rr.com>]

William Hopkins wrote:

> On 05/31/11 at 09:30pm, lrhorer wrote:
>> I rebooted one of my servers a few minutes ago, and while watching
>> the init text, I noticed a couple of failures related to the script's
>> not
>> finding `pidof`.  Sure enough, pidof was missing from my server,
>> somehow.  The rest of sysvinit-utils was there, but not pidof.  I
>> checked its sister machine, and it was there, so I copied it over,
>> and
>> all seems well - if distrurbing.  In the mean time, however, I
>> noticed a number of init scripts, including cron, dirmngr, and
>> portmap, all use
>> `pidofproc`, and `pidofproc` is missing from both systems.  In which
>> package does this utility reside?
> 
> IIRC, pidofproc is part of the init functions provided by lsb-base
> see: /lib/lsb/init-functions

Oh!  I see.  It's not a binary, at all.  The init scripts just source 
the function.  Thanks!  (I'd still like to know how `pidof` got 
mangled.)