[systemd-devel] systemd and smartd daemon

Fri Apr 3 05:45:54 PDT 2015

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015, 14:17 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
wrote:

 On Thu, 02.04.15 11:49, Al Lau (lauatic at gmail.com) wrote:

> As a test, the "/usr/sbin/smartd $smartd_opts" is invoked from the command
> line and the daemon is forked and stayed up as expected.  By default, the
> /usr/sbin/smartd daemonize.

Well, but does it do that correctly? i.e. does it *double* fork, not
just once? Does it write the PID file *before* exiting in the parent?

Actually why does it need a pidfile in the first place? Systemd is usually
good at guessing the mainpid.
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