[Spread-users] pid and process control

[Michael Peters]

Dave Koberstein wrote:
> I don't recall that I observed a way to tell spread to leave it's own 
> pid file.

Ok, just thought of it since configure mentions it.

> In your startup script, test the return code of spread to be sure it 
> started successfully and then use `pidof` to get the pid and write it 
> out to the file you want to.  Don't forget to clean it up on stop.

Yeah, that's what I'm currently doing. But it seems kind of brittle.

> I see your note about return code in perl.  I don't know that I've seen 
> it fail to start so maybe there is an issue that it always returns 0.

It's not a Perl problem. Try the following:

   ] spread &
   ] spread & # this should fail
   ] echo $?

it will always print "0" even though the last command failed.

-- 
Michael Peters
Plus Three, LP