[Opendnssec-user] Deprecating pid-files?

[Jakob Schlyter]

On 24 aug 2010, at 14.52, Ondřej Surý wrote:

> Please don't remove pidfiles. It's important to keep them in case the
> daemon is stuck and c&c interface doesn't work (or somebody removes
> the socket by accident, or ...). In that case the init.d script needs
> to kill the process by it's pid number and pidfile comes handy.

It just kills whatever process found in that pidfile?

Does the Debian init-scripts first try to stop using the c&c, wait, then stop using kill?

	jakob