problem with start-stop-daemon and --exec

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Ed W <lists at wildgooses.com> wrote:
> Hi, I see a difference in behaviour between "real" start-stop-daemon on
> gentoo and busybox version.  Specifically nginx renames it's parent process
> commandline name:
>
> # cat /proc/`cat /var/run/nginx.pid`/cmdline
> nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
>
> However, I can stop it without a problem on "real" start-stop-daemon
> # start-stop-daemon --stop --exec /usr/sbin/nginx --pidfile
> /var/run/nginx.pid
>
> However, using busybox start-stop-daemon I get an error
>
> $ start-stop-daemon --stop --exec /usr/sbin/nginx --pidfile
> /var/run/nginx.pid
> no /usr/sbin/nginx found; none killed

Please try attached patch.

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vda
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