[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#668332: Info received (Bug#643337: dpkg: start-stop-daemon can't handle script daemon)

[Jérôme]

Update.

I removed the --name argument, and I use following values:

NAME=script_name
DAEMON=path_to_script/$NAME
DAEMON_ARGS="--args"

do_start()
{
        # Return
        #   0 if daemon has been started
        #   1 if daemon was already running
        #   2 if daemon could not be started
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --make-pidfile
--chuid=$DAEMONUSER --pidfile $PIDFILE --startas $DAEMON --test >
/dev/null \
                || return 1
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --make-pidfile
--chuid=$DAEMONUSER --pidfile $PIDFILE --startas $DAEMON -- \
                $DAEMON_ARGS \
                || return 2

[...]

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=INT/30/KILL/5
--pidfile $PIDFILE


[...]

Now, I get expected behaviour. That is, the script won't launch two
instances of the application, and I have an explicit status message.

Yet, the name of the executable is not checked, which means that if it
dies somehow, and a new process gets its PID, the script will stop the
new process.

I suppose a nicer way would be to get s-s-d to write the name of the
script itself ($NAME) in /proc/PID/stat, instead of the name of the
interpreter ("python"). I couldn't achieve this.

Am I misunderstanding something ?

-- 
Jérôme