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| author | Peter Pentchev <roam@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-12-09 08:34:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Pentchev <roam@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-12-09 08:34:26 +0000 |
| commit | 8f9a790ec213aa3a5df851ff6259ac3e21b241cc (patch) | |
| tree | 57c43cc135caf128e182f02664ce7031548ca2b0 /sysutils/stalepid/pkg-descr | |
| parent | - Update to 2.6.9 (diff) | |
Add stalepid-1.0pre1, a handy utility for checking and removing stale
pid files left over by daemons after unclean shutdowns.
Diffstat (limited to 'sysutils/stalepid/pkg-descr')
| -rw-r--r-- | sysutils/stalepid/pkg-descr | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sysutils/stalepid/pkg-descr b/sysutils/stalepid/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0289b57a2c31 --- /dev/null +++ b/sysutils/stalepid/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +The stalepid utility was developed to facilitate the startup of servers +that write their process ID to a file and refuse to start if that file +exists (e.g. when the process was last terminated by an unclean shutdown, +or simply killed without given the chance to clean up the process ID +file). The stalepid utility is used to check for and possibly remove +those stale process ID files. Upon its invocation, stalepid checks for +the following conditions: +- the file specified by the pidfile argument exists; +- it contains a single line, and the line contains a single number; +- there is no process with the process ID specified in the file, or if + there is one, it is not named processname. + +If all those conditions are met, the stalepid utility will remove the +file specified by the pidfile argument, thus allowing the next invocation +of the server to proceed normally. + +Author: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> +WWW: http://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/stalepid/ |