Hello, There is a minor problem in the init script that comes with the hlds ebuild. In fact you can start the hlds server, but you cant stop it, 'cause of wrong process's pid. Here is some explanation : When you start the server , one PID is for the /bin/sh command who runs the srcds_run executable. And then there is a child PID for the real executable : games 4693 1 0 20:43 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /opt/halflife/css/srcds_run -pidfile /var/run/hlds.pid games 4708 4693 88 20:43 ? 00:00:03 ./srcds_amd -pidfile /var/run/hlds.pid In /var/run/hlds.pid we find the Child pid, in that example 4708. When want to stop the process with the rc script, it kills the child process but not the Parent. We can see with ps -ef that a new child process is created : games 4748 4693 0 20:50 ? 00:00:00 sleep 10 Then it disappears and the server is restarted : games 4750 4693 99 20:50 ? 00:00:02 ./srcds_amd -pidfile /var/run/hlds.pid Then you can't stop again the process, cause the PID had changed ... So you must kill the child and the parent process by hand in order to stop "properly" the hlds server. The only issue is that i dont use the rc script and i run from the CLI a script who do that (i must switch to games user just before). Is there an issue to fix the init script ? in order to kill both parent and child process... i would like to use the rc script :) Cheers. Luc
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123930 ***
