Packaging > init.d script falls over on start if pid file is already present

papertrail / remote_syslog2

To install, see "Releases" tab. Self-contained daemon for reading local files and emitting remote syslog (without using local syslogd).

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Packaging > init.d script falls over on start if pid file is already present #155

Open johlym opened 8 years ago

johlym commented 8 years ago

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I installed .deb package and was not able to demonize it without manual delete the .pid file.

johlym commented 8 years ago

Related to #128

johlym commented 8 years ago

Related to #95

johlym commented 8 years ago

Adding to this that non-clean stops of remote_syslog as a service can leave the pid file in place and prevent remote_syslog from auto-starting on system boot.