[ubuntu-uk] Init Script fun

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 29/06/10 20:08, Rob Beard wrote:
> Now running one of these streams is fine, it starts fine and goes into
> the background.  If I run a second stream (basically start the next
> init.d script) it will start to run the script but then come up with an
> error about it already running.

PIDs.

The start-stop-daemon should create a pid file so that it knows which 
app to kill. These are usually stored in /var/run/

I'm guessing that you will need to create different PIDs for each 
instance that you are trying to run. Try

# man start-stop-daemon

and take a look at the options.

HTH

Al


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