Bug 546318

Summary:	[Feature Request] start-stop-daemon kill signals flag
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Adam Feldman <np-hardass>
Component:	OpenRC	Assignee:	OpenRC Team <openrc>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Adam Feldman gentoo-dev

2015-04-12 07:03:15 UTC

Sometimes daemons do not terminate using the signal currently used by start-stop-daemon (sigterm?), therefore it would be nice if there was a flag that could be used with start-stop-daemon -K that would allow one to specify a signal.

Comment 1 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2015-04-12 14:24:53 UTC

If you are using the default start/stop functions, you can set the
stopsig variable to the signal you want to send or set the retry
variable to a retry schedule if you want to control the signal/wait
times for stopping a daemon.

If you are using start-stop-daemon directly, check out the -R and -s
options.

There is more info on the start-stop-daemon man page.

Please let me know if those options cover what you need.

Comment 2 Adam Feldman gentoo-dev

2015-04-12 16:31:29 UTC

I was focused on two modes, start and stop, and forgot that s-s-d had a third mode, --signal, which accomplishes the goal.