BIRD doesn't compile

[Florian Lohoff]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:48:34PM +0200, David Rohleder wrote:
> 
> if [ -S /var/bird.ctl ] ; then
>                 echo already running
> fi
> 
> does the same thing.

> And off course many daemons are using start-stop-daemon

Just by staring at it i saw a couple of ugly things - Must have been
very early when i actually did it.

The above would only imply that the pipe exists but not actually
tell you if bird is running.

"birdc" exits with an error code > 0 if bird is not reachable which
i try to detect.

The problem with the start-stop-daemon is that it needs a pid file
which when i remember correctly is not written by bird. One
solution would have been to make a patch to bird (Which i had
done if i remember) but i dropped it because of lazyness.

Flo
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