trusty (8) pidfilehack.8.gz

Provided by: minit_0.10-5build1_amd64 bug

NAME
       pidfilehack - work around daemons that always fork


SYNOPSIS
       pidfilehack servicename pidfile command [parameters]


DESCRIPTION
       pidfilehack  is used to work around daemons that insist on forking into the background, but that do write
       a correct pid file.

       pidfilehack forks the actual service, then waits for the pidfile to be written. Once it can read the  pid
       from the pidfile it will tell minit the real pid and quit.


USAGE
       usually pidfilehack is symlinked as run command of a service.

       servicename
              the name of the service pidfilehack is installed for.

       pidfile
              the filename to read the pid from

       command
              the real command to start

       parameters
              additional parameters for the command

              A typical use of this command will look like this:

       /etc/minit/apache

       /etc/minit/apache/params
              apache
              /var/run/apache.pid
              apachectl
              start

       /etc/minit/apache/run
              -> /sbin/pidfilehack


AUTHOR
       minit was written by Felix von Leitner and can be downloaded from his page at http://www.fefe.de/minit/

       This manpage was written by Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.


SEE ALSO
       msvc(8), pidfilehack(8)

                                                                                                  pidfilehack(8)