Robert Bielik wrote:
> Ok, I think I'm going nuts. I simply want to startup a Java Service like so:
>
> daemon --pidfile=$PIDFILE --user $USER "cd $WORKING_DIR && /usr/bin/java $DAEMON_ARGS >/dev/null 2>&1 &"
>
> I can get it to startup alrite, but the litte "thingy" is that I have no way of getting the process ID of the
> started service to put in the PIDFILE, in order for me to later on be able to stop the service.
> (I can have up to 5 of these Java services running, each needing a different pidfile).
>
> This is a BREEZE to do in Debian/Ubuntu with start-stop-daemon!
>
> Please help!
The straightforward way would be to give each of your services a different name
(service-a, service-b, etc) so you would have different init file instances,
different pid file names, and can specify the appropriate arguements to each
program.
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Les Mikesell
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