[Linux-HA] issue with management of heartbeat.pid file

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 5/24/07, Kevin Jamieson <kevin at kevinjamieson.com> wrote:
> Brian Reichert wrote:
>
> > What I tracked down was that if the box powered down too quickly
> > for heartbeat to clean up, a PID file was left in place:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > But, there's no check to assure the recorded PID is not stale.
> >
> > Have others seen this?  This code seems to be in 2.0.8 as well...
>
> FYI, I filed a bug on this a few months back:
>
> http://old.linux-foundation.org/developer_bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1454
>
> There's a patch attached to that bug that worked for us (although the
> patch is Linux-specific, so may not be ideal).

I took a few moments to modify the patch so that non-linux systems dont break.

Will commit momentarily.

>
> Kevin
>
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