[stunnel-users] Problem with pidfile

Thu May 29 01:18:41 CEST 2014

Stunnel should remove it on abnormal exit. It's customary. See here
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/688343/reference-for-proper-handling-of-pid-file-on-unix
On May 28, 2014 5:48 PM, <reg14 at rambler.ru> wrote:

> On 28/May/2014 at 21:51:42 +0200, Jochen Bern wrote:
> > On 29.05.2014 00:58, reg14 at rambler.ru wrote:
> > > It seems that it tries to create pidfile in /var/run, and ignores that
> > > the file is already exists. As a result, pid is not written to
> > > stunnel.pid, and daemon crashes. Could this be fixed?
> >
> > You might want to note that PID files are *supposed* to *not* exist if
> > the software in question is not currently running. Try creating a
> > *subdirectory* that the user has sufficient rights for, and have stunnel
> > put the PID file there.
>
> I did this way and discovered that stunnel does not remove pidfile on
> stopping if it has received SIGHUP during its session. PID does not
> change, stop is successful, but pidfile is not removed. Then it becomes
> impossible to determine whether stunnel is running or not. So reloading
> configuration makes a mess. I think that truncating pidfile in an init.d
> script is more reliable sign that service is stoped as compared with
> deleting pidfile. init.d sctipts are probably the more appropriate place
> to manipulate pidfile. All that a daemon should do is to create pidfile
> if it does not exist.
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