pidfilehack(8)

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)