[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 5.4p1-2

[Byron Clark]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 06:15:32PM +0100, Linas wrote:
> Byron Clark wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:32:15AM -0700, Byron Clark wrote:
> >>if pidof sshd | grep -q $(cat /var/run/sshd.pid); then
> >>     echo "pid in /var/run/sshd.pid is valid"
> >>else
> >>     echo "invalid pid"
> >>fi
> >Ignore that, it isn't entirely safe.
> 
> You may want grep -q "^$(cat /var/run/sshd.pid)\$"

Unfortunately that only works if there is only one sshd process returned
by pidof.  Here's the case I'm worried about:

/var/run/sshd.pid: 343
pidof sshd: 3433

-- 
Byron Clark