Re: [gentoo-dev] init scripts and custom signals

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:32:32PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> So, the question now must be, do we allow start-stop-daemon to defy calling
> logic and NOT stop a daemon? How do we know we're not supposed to stop the
> daemon based on a custom signal? The answer is we can't. So instead of
>
> start-stop-daemon --stop -s HUP -p /var/run/dnsmasq.pid
>
> we need to write
>
> kill -s HUP $(< /var/run/dnsmasq.pid)

... or implement a stand-alone --signal (or -s) in start-stop-daemon,
allowing it to be called like this:

start-stop-daemon --signal HUP -p /var/run/dnsmasq.pid

Regards,
Brix
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