NAME¶

pidfilehack - work around daemons that always fork

SYNOPSIS¶

pidfilehack servicename pidfile command [parameters]

DESCRIPTION¶

pidfilehack is used to work around daemons that insist on forking into the background, but that do write a correct pid file. pidfilehack forks the actual service, then waits for the pidfile to be written. Once it can read the pid from the pidfile it will tell minit the real pid and quit.

USAGE¶

usually pidfilehack is symlinked as run command of a service.

servicename

the name of the service pidfilehack is installed for.

pidfile

the filename to read the pid from

command

the real command to start

parameters

additional parameters for the command

 

A typical use of this command will look like this:

/etc/minit/apache

/etc/minit/apache/params

apache

 

/var/run/apache.pid

 

apachectl

 

start

/etc/minit/apache/run

-> /sbin/pidfilehack

 

AUTHOR¶

minit was written by Felix von Leitner and can be downloaded from his page at http://www.fefe.de/minit/ This manpage was written by Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.

SEE ALSO¶

msvc(8), pidfilehack(8)