On Thursday, 4 April 2024 10:12:23 BST I wrote: > Some of my machines run BOINC, which I want to stop while doing my sync & > update. For some reason, '/etc/init.d/boinc stop' often takes exactly 60s to > complete instead of its normal 6-10s. > > I'd like my update script to detect this condition, but I can't see how. > I've tried grepping /bin/ps output, and I've tried checking for existence > of a BOINC pid file, but those both tell me that BOINC is "running" while > it's in the process of shutting down. > > Is there somewhere in /proc where this shutting-down status is held?
Let me ask a different way: does start-stop-daemon keep the current, transient status of the daemon it's operating on anywhere other than in its own variables, and thus accessible for inspection? I have tried reading the code, but I'm not familiar with the Linux way of organising programs, and it's far too long since I did anything even remotely similar. -- Regards, Peter.
