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| author | William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> | 2016-12-05 12:23:37 -0600 |
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| committer | William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> | 2016-12-05 12:25:52 -0600 |
| commit | 3552f0ae548d68effd4411ad4080e7b13fe627c5 (patch) | |
| tree | 394b61ea70b21c49d099c2e296eeee5c5e212408 /man | |
| parent | 42cb84882918a0c9dd93a89d92b0b4818dfb44b8 (diff) | |
man/start-stop-daemon.8: clarify documentation about --pidfile option
The documentation implied that if you stop a daemon we handle multiple
pids in a pid file. This is not correct. We only handle the first pid.
X-Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601540
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/start-stop-daemon.8 | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/start-stop-daemon.8 b/man/start-stop-daemon.8 index 112cd5fb..1506a1a5 100644 --- a/man/start-stop-daemon.8 +++ b/man/start-stop-daemon.8 @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ is used. .It Fl p , -pidfile Ar pidfile When starting, we expect the daemon to create a valid .Ar pidfile -within a reasonable amount of time. When stopping we only stop the pid(s) +within a reasonable amount of time. When stopping we only stop the first pid listed in the .Ar pidfile . .It Fl n , -name Ar name |