salt rc.d scripts (Was: RUN_DEPENDS for python based port)

Christer Edwards christer.edwards at gmail.com
Fri Dec 23 07:56:09 UTC 2011


On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 12/22/2011 23:47, Christer Edwards wrote:
>> The pid file does not seem to get created.
>
> Ok, so fix it. :)  Setting 'pidfile' in the rc.d script is only useful
> if the service creates a pid file. It's not magic.
>
> Given that the thing seems to create a lot of instances of itself, and
> one pid may not be enough, you might want to try commenting out the
> pidfile in the script and see if that works.

/facepalm - that works.

Now that I feel adequately defeated by something so simple, I'm going to bed :)

Thanks again for all the help.


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