I tried to stop and restart /etc/init.d/fancontrol and I couldn't because the daemon had already died and the init script couldn't accept this. Here is what happened when I tried to restart the daemon: zebedee linux # /etc/init.d/fancontrol restart * Stopping fancontrol ... start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 6716: No such process 1 pids were not killed No process in pidfile `/var/run/fancontrol.pid' found running; none kill [ !! ] And when I deleted the pid file, this happened: zebedee linux # /etc/init.d/fancontrol status * status: started zebedee linux # /etc/init.d/fancontrol start * WARNING: "fancontrol" has already been started. zebedee linux # /etc/init.d/fancontrol stop * Stopping fancontrol ... No process in pidfile `/var/run/fancontrol.pid' found running; none kill [ !! ] I was only able to restart the daemon by first starting an instance of fancontrol from an xterm, writing that process's pid to the /var/run/fancontrol.pid, and, after that, finally doing "/etc/init.d/fancontrol stop" and "/etc/init.d/fancontrol start"
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