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Subject: Re: using rc scripts
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"Atom Powers" <atom.powers@gmail.com> writes:

> I wrote an rc script for cfengine, but it's not recording the pid. Am
> I doing something obviously wrong, or does rc rely on the app to
> provide the pid?

Yes.  The application has to provide the pid.  In the base system,
many do this by default, but most third party applications have to be
configured to do so.