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> I am trying to get my daemon to work still.  With the great help of people here, I 
> was able to manage it to run.  However, whenever I tried to stop my daemon 
> using the command 
> 
> # my_daemon stop
> 
> It simply said there ws no such daemon running.  I checked the status of it, and I 
> got the same result.  I came to know that it was because my_daemon was 
> actually a script that ran another program, ie. a JAVA application.  So, on the 
> process table, there was no "my_daemon" running, but rather "my_JAVA" was 
> running.  Thus, I now need to find a way to change the name of the 
> program "my_JAVA" to "my_daemon" on the process table to be able to stop the 
> daemon.  Or better yet, I need to find a better and conventional way to deal with 
> this kind of situation.  How would I go about do this?
> 
> As an attempt, I had written a C program and have it run "execlp("jre", path[0], 
> path[1],...);" where path[0]="my_daemon".  However, it still kept the "jre" as the 
> program running on the process table.  So, it didnt work
> 
> Do I need to play with "rc" files?

Use 'getpid' to get the process ID, and record it in 
"/var/run/some_name.pid".  In your 'rc' script, set
'pidfile="/var/run/some_name.pid".  Then your 'rc' script
should be able to stop your program: '/etc/rc.d/some_name stop'.
See many examples in '/etc/rc.d'.

David S.


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