[Opendnssec-user] Deprecating pid-files?

[Jakob Schlyter]

On 25 aug 2010, at 14.06, Ondřej Surý wrote:

> Debian uses following snippet to stop the daemons:
> 
> do_stop()
> {
>        # Return
>        #   0 if daemon has been stopped
>        #   1 if daemon was already stopped
>        #   2 if daemon could not be stopped
>        #   other if a failure occurred
>        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5
> --pidfile $PIDFILE
>        RETVAL="$?"
>        [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2
> 
>        # Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
>        rm -f $PIDFILE
>        return "$RETVAL"
> }

This illustrates my problem quite well. In the OpenDNSSEC case you really want to ask the signer engine to exit nicely by running 'ods-signer stop'. You don't know if the signer engine has crash, left the PID-file and some other daemon taken its place.

	jakob