Issue 8228 - avoid clobbering a valid pid file
Summary: avoid clobbering a valid pid file
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: OpenLDAP
Classification: Unclassified
Component: slapd (show other issues)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
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Assignee: OpenLDAP project
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Reported: 2015-08-28 17:20 UTC by Ryan Tandy
Modified: 2017-04-12 16:46 UTC (History)
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Description Ryan Tandy 2015-08-28 17:20:52 UTC 
Full_Name: Ryan Tandy
Version: master
OS: Debian
URL: 
Submission from: (NULL) (24.68.37.4)
Submitted by: ryan


Forwarding a feature request from <https://bugs.debian.org/375067>:

It would be nice if slapd would notice an existing pid file pointing at a live
process, and refuse to overwrite it.

Starting slapd twice with the same pidfile is certainly user error, but it seems
like it should be preventable.
Comment 1 Quanah Gibson-Mount 2017-04-12 16:46:31 UTC 
moved from Incoming to Software Bugs