The current openfire script uses kill to end a process. This fails under some circumstances (e.g. the process is under heavy load and unresponsive). For RedHat (and related), there is a function, killproc that will try to kill the process nicely and escalate all the way up to SIGKILL - this is more reliable in practice. Also, the presence of a PID file is not desirable. When the process dies unexpectedly or it gets killed, the file is left behind so OF won't start until it is removed. A better way to handle this is to grep for PID.
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Alex Mateescu
October 30, 2012 at 3:22 PM
Made the improvements to the script. Added a message when the script is not run as root, so that the user will know what's going on (it was exiting silently before).
The current openfire script uses kill to end a process. This fails under some circumstances (e.g. the process is under heavy load and unresponsive). For RedHat (and related), there is a function, killproc that will try to kill the process nicely and escalate all the way up to SIGKILL - this is more reliable in practice.
Also, the presence of a PID file is not desirable. When the process dies unexpectedly or it gets killed, the file is left behind so OF won't start until it is removed. A better way to handle this is to grep for PID.