rc script problem - pidfile not being recognised

[RW]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:55:58 +0100 (BST)
Kevin Golding wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "RW via freebsd-ports" <freebsd-ports at freebsd.org>
> > Sent: Friday, 11 September, 2015 4:18:50 PM
> > 

> > did you set the command_interpreter variable, probably you need
> > 
> > command_interpreter=/usr/local/bin/python2.7
> 
> And that seems to have fixed it - thank you.
> 
> I still think there's an error in reading the pidfile since I think
> this means I'm using the process name rather than the pid but it does
> the job so I won't worry too much for today. 

It needs both. It won't use just the pid file because the pid
might have been reassigned to another process if the original daemon
died without deleting its pid file.