BIRD doesn't compile

[Florian Lohoff]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:30:44AM +0200, David Rohleder wrote:
> > I have my own init system which uses a C program similar to debian's
> > start-stop-daemon.  I've written it such that given a command line flag
> > the daemon spawning program will write a pid file if you know the daemon
> > you're running doesn't write one (such as with bird).  Once I did this I
> > had no trouble starting and stopping bird using the pid file
> > mechanism.  Perhaps you might patch debian's start-stop-daemon to do a
> > similar thing?  It's a thought.
> 
> start-stop-daemon already does this:
> 

> --make-pidfile
>               Used  when  starting a program that does not create

*Urgs* Thanks for pointing that out - I didnt know that - I am currently
also very busy on the mips/mipsel ports but i'll hope i can at least
produce better init scripts soon.

Flo
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