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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Init script issue
From: Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>
To: Ted Trask <ttrask01@yahoo.com>
Cc: Alpine Developers <alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org>
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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:16:14 +0100
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On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 13:32 -0800, Ted Trask wrote:
> A recent change to ACF looks for the presence of pid files to
> determine if a service is running.  Unfortunately, the status is wrong
> for at least a few services because the init.d script fails to delete
> the pid file on a stop.  So far, I've seen the problem with bgpd,
> dansguardian, and dnsmasq.  I'm sure it's also there with others.

right, and not all services uses pid at all. basicly, you cannot really
rely on the pid file.

While working on a related proj i was thinking that the init.d libs
should be taking optional parameter to check if service is running by
pidof()

-nc



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