8 Feb
2008
8 Feb
'08
8:11 p.m.
On Feb 8, 2008 3:06 PM, Sentinel <kanocz@intrak.sk> wrote:
Hi!
It works perfectly (at least for me), just you have to ensure, that you call it with appropriate rights while testing: my testing: sentinel@sentinel:~$ su Password: with power comes great responsibility root@sentinel:/home/sentinel# PID=`pidof -o %PPID -x /usr/sbin/proftpd` root@sentinel:/home/sentinel# echo $PID 7469 root@sentinel:/home/sentinel# [ -z "$PID" ] && echo "pid is empty" root@sentinel:/home/sentinel#
Tom
That is because you already have /usr/sbin/proftpd running. In the case of running the start initscript, the PID is sampled before the application ever starts, and hence will return no PID, as Dan already explained.