What do you think about switching the to having gkrellmd to being the creator of the pidfile and elimiting -m -b --pidfile from start-stop-daemon. gkrellmd has it's own --pidfile option, so if you do the following:
from my working /etc/init.d/gkrellmd
start)
echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \
--exec $DAEMON -- --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid
$DAEMON_OPTS echo "$NAME."
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid
echo "$NAME."
;;
You will have a working initscript that eliminates -m -b, because of the
fact that -m -b is considered a last resort (e.g. only for programs
that don't daemonize on their own), as I pointed out in my last email
with the quote from the start-stop-daemon manpage.
Reproduced here in case you missed it:
-b, --background
[snip]
This is a last resort, and is only meant for programs that either make
no sense forking on their own, or where it's not feasible to
add the code for them to do this themselves.
Regards,
Daniel
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