daemon pid error! (

[zecodela]

hi,
i used noip2 to start my dynamic dns stuffs. i compiled the binary and it work fine! however, i found the startup script cant return a correct pid. so, i cant stop the daemon by /etc/init.d/noip2 stop.
it is interesting! since the return pid is always 1 less than the correct pid. so, i think problem may come from the script.
here is the script. pls check anything wrong with it!

DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/noip2
NAME=noip2

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting dynamic address update: "
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/noip2.pid \
--make-pidfile --exec $DAEMON
echo "noip2."
;;
stop)
echo -n "Shutting down dynamic address update:"
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/noip2.pid \
--oknodo --retry 30 --exec $DAEMON
echo "noip2."
;;

restart)
echo -n "Restarting dynamic address update: "
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/noip2.pid \
--oknodo --retry 30 --exec $DAEMON
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/noip2.pid \
--exec $DAEMON
echo "noip2."
;;

*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0


any hints of the problem? anything wrong on my script?

thanks,
jim

[pjp]

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[SPW]

That's interesting indeed! I also get something as "start-stop-daemon: failed to kill process" when I shutdown. And now I realized that this error message is linked to noip2. Unfortunately I don't know what I can do about it.