Re: Release-critical Bugreport for December 7, 1998
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 02:04:54PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> > start-stop-daemon --signal 0 --pidfile /var/run/xdm.pid
> > ^^^^^^^
> > Branden, please note the documented
> > flag is --pidfile not --pid
> >
> > but it doesn't always work as intended. In fact, most of the time it
> > doesn't work as intended. Any suggestions as how to detect if [wx]dm is
> > already running? I'm currently looking at something like "ps axh | grep
> > xdm", but I don't like it.
>
> Any reason not to use pidof?
No, not really. (In fact, I was wondering that myself... take a look at
xdm.(pre|post)inst and you'll see what I mean.
Marcelo
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