On 06/17/2011 02:05 AM, Bob Arendt wrote: > mpd forks and daemonizes itself, so the main pid dies. There is a misunderstanding about what "main PID" means. It is not the PID of the original process which forks and then exits. It should be the PID of the process of the running daemon. The one that gets written to the PID file. Michal