restorecond won't die

Jay Cliburn jacliburn at bellsouth.net
Sun Jul 16 02:49:37 UTC 2006


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.




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