17 Jan
2005
17 Jan
'05
1:08 p.m.
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:56:14 -0500, Satya ilugbom@thesatya.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:21:19PM +0530, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
Do an strace on the application while running it and see the output. That should tell you what file on disk it is trying to stat()/open().
Well-behaved applications should tell you which pid files they are looking at when they stop because "pid file exists".
Yeah they should but many don't. Most programs (even in the OSS world) do not have good error checking and also may not print intelligible messages.
:) cheers Vinayak