[vdr] Re: VDR pidfile

["Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 08:17:27PM +0200, Roland Behme wrote:
> Hi Darren,
> 
> > Assuming Debian:
> >   $ man 8 start-stop-daemon
> It's Gentoo.
> 
> I tried start-stop-daemon, but it does not seem to be the solution:
> 
> vdr root # /etc/init.d/vdr start
>  * Starting VDR...                                                          [ ok ]
> vdr root # cat /var/run/vdr.pid
> 3277
> vdr root # pidof vdr
> 3288 3287 3286 3285 3284 3282 3281 3280 3279
> vdr root # kill -s 0 3277
> -bash: kill: (3277) - No such process
> 
> 
> The startscript looks like this:
> 
> -- snip --------------------------------------
>         start-stop-daemon --start \
>         --background \
>         --make-pidfile \
>         --pidfile /var/run/vdr.pid \
>         --exec /usr/local/bin/vdr -- -d -l 3 \
>                 -L /usr/local/lib \
>                 ... even more options
> -- snip --------------------------------------
> 
> It seems like VDR returns a wrong PID or the VDR-process started by
> start-stop-daemon terminates after making some children (like all of
> us *g*).
> 
> Any ideas?

The fix is really simple, nevertheless it was never added to
vdr ;^)
OK, one problem could be that vdr has to run as root upto
the point where the pid file will be created.

           Werner
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