Re: [stunnel-users] Problem with pidfile

On 28/May/2014 at 19:18:41 -0400, Brian Wilkins wrote:

Stunnel should remove it on abnormal exit. It's customary. See here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/688343/reference-for-proper-handling-of-p...

As I described in my previous message, the problem is that stunnel does not remove pidfile on *normal* exit if it received HUP signal.

Thanks for the link. You are probably right, removing pidfile on exit (if daemon has write access for /var/run) is a good convention. But ignoring the existing pidfile on statup is rather unusual. Discussion on the link tends to the point that there is no canonical way for handling pidfiles. So on the daemon level it would be desirable if this were as simple as possible.