pid files...

[Russell Fulton]

On 28/06/2011, at 1:13 PM, Russell Fulton wrote:

> Wow, long time no posts :)  Yes I'm still doing things with argus -- just totally snowed under :(
> 
> I am currently reworking the management of my sensors and using puppet to do all the heavy lifting and I have got the to the point that I really want to be able to specify the name of the pid file as well as the path.  I could make separate directories for the various argus processors but I would much rather not.  
> 
> Currently I am running multiple argus processes on one interface but I am only getting one pid file argus.eth1.0.pid
> 
> The two processes are spawned very close together and I suspect there is a race condition where the files are being overwritten.
> 
> Google turns up a reference to a config option ARGUS-PID-FILENAME but it does not appear to be current.  
> 
> Have I missed something?
> 
> Russell
> 
> PS.  running 3.0.2 if it matters....

I tried putting a two second sleep in the script that spawns the process but it did not make any difference, the second process seems to overwrite:

19911 ?        Ss     0:01 /usr/sbin/argus -F /home/sensors/dmzo/conf/argus-std.conf
19913 ?        Ss     0:01 /usr/sbin/argus -F /home/sensors/dmzo/conf/argus-user-data.conf
[sensors at mon263550 ~]$ ls dmzo/run/
argus.eth1.0.pid
[sensors at mon263550 ~]$ cat dmzo/run/argus.eth1.0.pid 
19913

Even putting a 10 sec delay made no difference I still got just one pid file.

Russell