Bob Hilliard writes: > > I am working on improving the startup file for a daemon that doesn't > > handle its pid file properly and consistently. I am getting the pid by > > piping the output of ps ax through grep and cut.
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not use pidof ? Only works if you're guaranteed that there's only one running instance of the daemon. [Consider, for example, a daemon which listens at a port, where there's an option to let it listen at some other port.] I seem to recally either policy or the packaging manual recommending against using pidof for start/stop scripts. [And, start-stop-daemon is a bit clunky for some of these kinds of things.] -- Raul
