Hello,
while attempting to adapt the pppoe service script from BLFS to the new
instructions at http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/PPP, I found
the following problem in the LFS bootscripts. The new script, in the
"down" sections, attempts to call something like this:
killproc -p /var/run/ppp-eth0.pid pppd
The intention is to get the pid from that file, send this process a
SIGTERM signal, and wait until it goes away (this takes some time
because the terminating LCP packets must be sent and acknowledged). All
other instances of pppd should continue running.
However, the result is not as I expect. If there is indeed only one
pppd, it is terminated, waited for, and a green OK appears on the
screen. If there is another (unrelated) copy of pppd running, then the
correct pppd (i.e., with the pid taken from /var/run/ppp-eth0.pid) is
killed, but a red FAILED message appears on the screen. The other pppd
continues running, exactly as I want. I.e., the only wrong thing above
is the red FAILED message.
Is this a bug, or am I abusing killproc for killing only some of the
running instances of a daemon?
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Alexander E. Patrakov
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