F16 ddclient fails to start

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:14:48 -0500, TP (Terry) wrote:

> o/p from /var/log/messages;
> Jan 13 20:54:13 columbia ddclient[1758]: Stopping ddclient: [FAILED]
> Jan 13 20:56:32 columbia systemd[1]: Failed to read PID
> file /var/run/ddclient/ddclient.pid after start. The service might be
> broken
> 
> I created a /run/ddclient folder, no help.
> Anyone have an idea?
> 
> package version is ddclient-3.8.0-4.fc15.noarch

Spend some time here, please -> http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/ddclient 

The reason for that misbehaviour could be that it's double-forking daemon
that writes the PID file too late.