[Pkg-stud-maintainers] Bug#725797: Bug#725797: stud: Fix failure to run stud restart

[Vincent Bernat]

 ❦  8 octobre 2013 15:40 CEST, Louis Bouchard <louis.bouchard at ubuntu.com> :

> This bug report follows a previously reported bug on Ubuntu :
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1123950
>
> Utilization of invoke-rc.d stud restart is failing to restart
> the stud daemon correctly.
>
> This is caused by the use of --pidfile that does not wait for the
> children to terminate. Removing --pidfile and -m fixes the problem
>
> start-stop-daemon now uses --user to identify the appropriate process
> to kill, otherwise the 'stud' init script will be killed as well.
>
> This works as long as the user running is not 'root', which is highly
> discouraged in the README.md file anyway.

How does this work for multiple stud instances? I didn't know that
start-stop-daemon does not wait for the process to terminate by
default. Maybe we should use --retry instead.
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