[JDEV] Jabberd pidfile handling.

[kadokev at msg.net]

I understand that 'jabberd' checks for the existence of the pidfile, and
refuses to run if it exists. This works fine as long as the previous
execution of jabberd exited cleanly and removed it's old pidfile.

Was there an intentional design decision made not to read the process ID
stored in the pidfile, and if that process no longer exists, to overwrite
the pidfile with the new process ID rather than exit with an error?

I've worked around this by doing basically the same thing in my jabber
startup script.

Kevin


> you can fix this problem by deleting the jabber.pid file created in
> jabber-1.4 directory.
> 
> run the server after deleting this file, it'll work fine.
> 
> I get the following message everytime i try to re-start the server.
> 
> "A pidfile already exists at the specified location.  Check to ensure
> another cop y of the server is not running, or remove the existing file. "