[syslinux] tftpd-hpa and pidfile

[Steve Brown]

On Mon, 18 May 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:

> 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.

Not sure if it's RedHat specific, but their /etc/init.d/functions file 
makes quite a bit of use of the 'pidof' command... the manpage doesn't 
indicate that it is RH specific.

Steve Brown
sbrown7 at umbc.edu