From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Sep 11 16:19:36 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C85A02532 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:19:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 033C41788 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:19:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 00038A02530; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:19:36 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3BEAA0252F for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:19:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-x230.google.com (mail-wi0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9F0D81786 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:19:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by wicge5 with SMTP id ge5so69417479wic.0 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 09:19:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=1iUDinIFSiv+nR0tMlAoXsuB/ubeMGjAb3zVWdyzi3o=; b=b2eZFHd/aMvaq/fpo8HIRu+rCF3FUmSK4/4i7VUtJnWZeYNBRpSKTLIHnh5ah+JAMz qhyYBnLlQ1BKTK+x96mxrtznnY+adgTVkWSDAxzIpMlktd48cQ+H2qlTuZSgAAga0fct Pr71AcG3b4TgwLrt5TLtS6pzxzoqJ7/zu0VXWYfXulu/j18UWX8KFzJEvwS1m2M4cNpA D0pUIy4GRqr0Io0uUEcgE5JC8otx6CXe/oqYEgzUUY1E23uWshwNYrDvTt4A6vCHNWtn 2hRnxmuw4PYk4oIl5BDneqxzZk30D1ZoqBGkPItos4gvhIwTb+d2feTn6r2YmGGc6Zg+ UQPA== X-Received: by 10.194.20.161 with SMTP id o1mr87118872wje.32.1441988374080; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 09:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com ([90.195.198.255]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id jw9sm1103421wjb.28.2015.09.11.09.19.32 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 11 Sep 2015 09:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 17:19:30 +0100 From: RW To: Kevin Golding Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc script problem - pidfile not being recognised Message-ID: <20150911171930.59e67cc2@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <853047065.182.1441986957380.JavaMail.Kevin@Thoth> References: <20150911161850.402b3d5a@gumby.homeunix.com> <853047065.182.1441986957380.JavaMail.Kevin@Thoth> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.12.0 (GTK+ 2.24.28; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:19:36 -0000 On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:55:58 +0100 (BST) Kevin Golding wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "RW via freebsd-ports" > > Sent: Friday, 11 September, 2015 4:18:50 PM > > > > did you set the command_interpreter variable, probably you need > > > > command_interpreter=/usr/local/bin/python2.7 > > And that seems to have fixed it - thank you. > > I still think there's an error in reading the pidfile since I think > this means I'm using the process name rather than the pid but it does > the job so I won't worry too much for today. It needs both. It won't use just the pid file because the pid might have been reassigned to another process if the original daemon died without deleting its pid file.