Bug 15664 – dcron should produce a pid file

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Russell Adams 2003-02-13 18:35:58 UTC]

dcron should produce a PID file in /var/run on startup. All core system services
ought to.

The simple fix is to add the following options to the start-stop-daemon line in
/etc/init.d/dcron when starting crond:

--make-pidfile --pidfile /var/run/cron.pid

A "rm -f /var/run/cron.pid" would suffice in the stop section.


Reproducible: Always
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*  sys-apps/dcron
      Latest version available: 2.7-r9
      Latest version installed: 2.7-r9
      Size of downloaded files: 15 kB
      Homepage:    http://apollo.backplane.com/
      Description: A cute little cron from Matt Dillon

[Comment 1 Russell Adams 2003-02-14 11:27:18 UTC]

Seems that perhaps start-stop-daemon is reporting the wrong PID in the pid file.

Perhaps a better method is:

/usr/bin/pgrep -x -u 0 -P 1 crond > /var/run/cron.pid

[Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-02-14 13:50:21 UTC]

fixed with -r10

thx