What is start_daemon?
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It's a shell function in /lib/lsb/init-functions
. You should see . /lib/lsb/init-functions
earlier in the init script.
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David Parks
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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David Parks over 1 year
I'm trying to understand
start_daemon
in the following/etc/init.d/nagios-nrpe-server
startup script:start) if [ "$INETD" = 1 ]; then exit 1 fi log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME" start_daemon -p $PIDDIR/nrpe.pid $NICENESS $DAEMON -c $CONFIG -d $DAEMON_OPTS log_end_msg $? ;;
In particular, when I start this service it isn't writing a PID file as expected, thus the
stop service nagios-nrpe-server
command is not working (I need to manually kill the processes).I'm trying to figure out how to trouble shoot the problem, but I can't run
start_daemon ...
from the command line.I want to reproduce what the script is doing manually so I can work on what the problem is.
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David Parks about 12 yearsThe ultimate solution to this problem, in case someone finds this post and is experiencing the same issue with the NRPE daemon, was to fix the PID setting in /etc/nrpe.cfg
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David Parks about 12 yearsAha! Sneaky buggers. I see where it's coming from now! Thanks.