Starting service daemons

Natanael Copa natanael.copa at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 11:33:41 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 13:28 +0200, hinko.kocevar at cetrtapot.si wrote:
> Natanael Copa wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 09:16 +0200, hinko.kocevar at cetrtapot.si wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> > 
> > Use start-stop-daemon -n or with pidfiles.
> > 
> 
> Ok, thanx.
> I've tried -m -p /var/lock/pidfile and strange thing happens - actual 
> PID number recoreded in the pidfile doesn't belong to the daemon being 
> started. It belongs to the process that already finished. Eg.
> 
> # start-stop-daemon --start -m -p /var/lock/crond.pid -x /sbin/crond -- 
> -c /etc/crontab/
> 
> # ps
> ...
>   4274 root        192 S   /sbin/crond -c /etc/crontab/
> 
> # cat /var/lock/crond.pid
> 4272
> 
> Note: I observed that this doesn't happen with dropbear client but with 
> busybox applets - crond, httpd, ...

Its normal. process forks, child continues, parent exits and the pid of
parent get recorded.

try start-stop-daemon -n

Natanael Copa




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