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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Axel Kittenberger wrote:
> Hi list again, another suggestion.
>
> I use the deamons pidfile feature to write pidfiles so I can controll 
> the virtual machines with /etc/init.d/bla scripts, to e.g. auto spawn 
> the guests when the server starts, auto/start/stop with runlevels and 
> so on.. However I got following issue, the daemon wont start if there 
> is a pidfile already (yes no problem for user to delete, but for auto 
> spawning after unattended boot) . Since e.g. following situation: 
> BANG! Powerout! .... System goes up when power is available again. The 
> init scripts want to start the qemu/kvm deamons, but they refuse 
> because these see their pidfiles already from pre-powerout..

-pidfile behaves properly in CVS.  You may be able to find the patch on 
the ML that fixed it.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> I have seen other daemons somehow locking their pidfiles while 
> running, and when killed -9ed, or poweroutes and they start again, 
> they see their pid-file is unlocked, thus stale, and just overwrite 
> it... only notifing you with a message they did so.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Axel
>
>
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