restorecond won't die
Mike Chambers
mike at miketc.com
Sun Jul 16 03:29:11 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 21:49 -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote:
> On logout of current rawhide, I notice restorecond fails to stop. It
> also fails to stop when issued the command 'service restorecond
> restart'. This is because the pid in /var/run/restorecond.pid is one
> less than the actual pid, so the killproc() function
> in /etc/init.d/functions can't find the pid to kill.
>
> [root at osprey ~]# cat /var/run/restorecond.pid
> 2302
> [root at osprey ~]# ps -ef | grep restorecond | grep -v grep
> root 2303 1 0 21:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/restorecond
>
> Hand editing /var/run/restorecond.pid to make the value match the
> running pid results in a successful restart.
>
> The end result of this problem is a new restorecond for every 'service
> restorecond restart' invocation, since the 'stop' fails and the 'start'
> succeeds.
I saw the same thing, as well as a few other services too. Must be
something underlying more than that, that affects all of them.
--
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY
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