[syslinux] tftpd-hpa and pidfile

[Ferenc Wagner]

Steve Brown <sbrown7 at umbc.edu> writes:

> On Mon, 18 May 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> Pascal Legrand <Pascal.Legrand at univ-orleans.fr> writes:
>>
>>> i've got a problem on lenny with tftpd-hpa
>>> When i launch it from /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa start, there is no pidfile created.
>>> what is the way to get it ?
>>
>> I doubt tftpd-hpa ever creates a pid file.
>
> That would be the responsibility of the startup script
> /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa -- it's just a shell script.

No, the startup script has no reliable means to find out the PID of
the newly born daemon.
-- 
Feri.