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proftpd-dfsg package

  1. Bug #1246245
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 1246245

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danb1974 (danb1974) wrote : Re: proftpd service failed to restart

Seems it's not that simple to do a proper fix, since the same signal() function is used for stop (TERM) and reload (HUP)

If you just add --retry to the first call to start-stop-daemon you will break reload, since proftpd will be killed (--retry changes the behaviour, now it's mission is to terminate the process, sending a TERM/KILL schedule until pid file is gone)

Looks like the clean approach would be to separate stop and reload and get rid of all the if/then/else dance and cascaded start-stop-daemon calls