pidfilehack.8 (1226B)
1 .TH pidfilehack 8 2 .SH NAME 3 pidfilehack \- work around daemons that always fork 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B pidfilehack 6 .I servicename 7 .I pidfile 8 .I command 9 .I [parameters] 10 11 .SH DESCRIPTION 12 .B pidfilehack 13 is used to work around daemons that insist on forking into the background, 14 but that do write a correct pid file. 15 16 pidfilehack forks the actual service, then waits for the pidfile to 17 be written. Once it can read the pid from the pidfile it will tell 18 minit the real pid and quit. 19 20 .SH USAGE 21 usually pidfilehack is symlinked as \fIrun\fR command of a service. 22 .TP 23 servicename 24 the name of the service pidfilehack is installed for. 25 .TP 26 pidfile 27 the filename to read the pid from 28 .TP 29 command 30 the real command to start 31 .TP 32 parameters 33 additional parameters for the command 34 35 A typical use of this command will look like this: 36 .TP 37 /etc/minit/apache 38 .TP 39 /etc/minit/apache/params 40 apache 41 .br 42 /var/run/apache.pid 43 .br 44 apachectl 45 .br 46 start 47 .TP 48 /etc/minit/apache/run 49 -> /sbin/pidfilehack 50 51 .SH AUTHOR 52 minit was written by Felix von Leitner and can be downloaded from 53 his page at 54 .I http://www.fefe.de/minit/ 55 56 This manpage was written by Erich Schubert <[email protected]> 57 for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. 58 59 .SH "SEE ALSO" 60 msvc(8), pidfilehack(8)