[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#763703: startpar process remains running with an undocumented -f option

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: startpar
Version: 0.59-3
Severity: normal


Hi.

Not sure since when this occurs but I've noticed it the first time today
so perhaps since the last version upgrade:

I have a server (still running sysvinit) which has sks, apache and some
other daemons.
Long after boot (days), there's still a starpar process running with
no obvious reason:

# ps ax
...
4565 ?        S      0:43 /usr/sbin/sks db
4566 ?        S      0:09 /usr/sbin/sks recon
4567 ?        Ss     0:00 /lib/startpar/startpar -f -- sks
...

Interestingly it has a higher PID than the actual two daemons, started
by the sks init script.

Oh and -f seems to be undocumented in the manpage.


Any ideas?


Cheers,
Chris.
 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages startpar depends on:
ii  libc6  2.19-11

startpar recommends no packages.

Versions of packages startpar suggests:
ii  insserv  1.14.0-5
ii  sysv-rc  2.88dsf-53.4

-- no debconf information