Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 11, 2005 03:33 PM
Rather than killing off all processes using killproc (which for example doesn't happen to be available on my Gentoo system), you could use the much more powerful start-stop-daemon coming from the Debian distribution.
The recent versions are able to (among other things) - create the PID file - stop the daemon based on the PID found inside that file - do chuid and chgid calls - either chroot or working directory - seng signals to reload the config rather than restart
By doing slight changes to the source code, it rungs fine on Solaris based servers too.
The article might be a good starting point, but especially the "rm -rf" approach doesn't make me feel very relieved.
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Consider using start-stop-daemon
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 11, 2005 03:33 PMThe recent versions are able to (among other things) - create the PID file
- stop the daemon based on the PID found inside that file
- do chuid and chgid calls
- either chroot or working directory
- seng signals to reload the config rather than restart
By doing slight changes to the source code, it rungs fine on Solaris based servers too.
The article might be a good starting point, but especially the "rm -rf" approach doesn't make me feel very relieved.
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