Bug 113591

Summary:	killproc doesn't kill rsync daemon
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Lars Müller <lmuelle>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	per, werner
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	Future/Later
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
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Description Lars Müller 2005-08-27 22:48:37 UTC

And this is only the case for the rsyncd.  Not for smbd or nmbd for example. 
This happens on an older P III 1.2 GHz system.

gab:~ # rcrsyncd status
Checking for rsync daemon:                                           running
gab:~ # rcrsyncd stop
Shutting down rsync daemon                                           done
gab:~ # rcrsyncd status
Checking for rsync daemon:                                           running
gab:~ # killproc -TERM /usr/sbin/rsyncd 
gab:~ # rcrsyncd status
Checking for rsync daemon:                                           running
gab:~ # pkill rsyncd
gab:~ # rcrsyncd status
Checking for rsync daemon:                                           unused

Comment 1 Lars Müller 2005-08-27 22:51:57 UTC

Also valid on a different system (AMD Athlon 900 MHz).  Both systems are running
10.0 Beta 3.

Comment 2 Thorsten Kukuk 2005-08-28 09:04:28 UTC

Update to stable.

Comment 3 Per Jessen 2009-06-04 07:26:51 UTC

I know this report is ancient, but I'm seeing exactly the same or at least a very similar problem today on my openSUSE 11.0 installation.  The problem, AFAICT, is caused by the 'startproc /usr/sbin/rsync --daemon' not writing a pidfile in /var/run/rsyncd.pid.  This is presumably due to rsyncd detaching itself from its parent, which means startproc has nothing to write to the pidfile. 

The result is that rsyncd can be started with rcrsyncd, but not stopped. 'rcrsyncd stop' says it has stopped rsyncd, but it hasn't.

Comment 4 Dr. Werner Fink 2009-06-04 09:11:56 UTC

startproc does not write pid files, this is the job of the daemon its self.
To stop a daemon simply use

      killproc /usr/sbin/rsyncd

and it will be stopped.  This is done in /etc/init.d/rsyncd.  If it does not
work the wrong binray is used.  Beside this on openSUSE 11.1 it works:

 # rcrsyncd start
 Starting rsync daemon                                   done
 # rcrsyncd status
 Checking for rsync daemon:                              running
 # rcrsyncd stop
 Shutting down rsync daemon                              done
 # rcrsyncd status
 Checking for rsync daemon:                              unused