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proftpd-dfsg package

  1. Bug #1246245
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1246245

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Merlijn Hofstra (mhofstra) wrote : Re: proftpd service failed to restart

This bug is also still present in 14.04

I tend to think that "sleep 1" is somewhat ugly in the init script, this solution works for me:

@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
  fi
     fi
     if [ -f "$PIDFILE" ]; then
- start-stop-daemon --stop --signal $SIGNAL --quiet --pidfile "$PIDFILE"
+ start-stop-daemon --stop --signal $SIGNAL --retry 1 --quiet --pidfile "$PIDFILE"
      if [ $? = 0 ]; then
          log_end_msg 0
      else