[JDEV] Jabberd pidfile handling.

[Thomas Muldowney]

The pidfile mess is mostly my thought.  Someone requested the feature last
minute and I put it in =).  If you don't want pidfile support though, you 
should be able to remove the tag and function correctly.  It should be
cleaned up in the future.

--temas

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 05:34:00PM -0600, kadokev at msg.net wrote:
> 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. "
>  
> 
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