[smokeping-users] Stopping smokeping?

[Josh Luthman]

Not sure if this is the best way to do it, but here is what my init script
has:

kill `cat /usr/local/smokeping/var/smokeping.pid`

Josh Luthman
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Steven Stromer <filter at stevenstromer.com>wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> Can anyone recommend a clean method for shutting down smokeping on OS X?
>
> $ ps -ax | grep smokeping
> 29231 ??         0:00.25 /opt/local/bin/speedy_backend
> /opt/local/var/smokeping/smokeping.cgi
> 41246 ??         0:01.38 /opt/local/bin/smokeping [EchoPingHttp]
> 41247 ??         0:03.50 /opt/local/bin/smokeping [FPing]
> 41248 ??         0:03.90 /opt/local/bin/smokeping [DNS]
> 56754 ??         0:13.75 /opt/local/bin/speedy_backend
> /opt/local/var/smokeping/smokeping.cgi
> 92373 ??         0:03.97 /opt/local/bin/perl -w /opt/local/bin/smokeping
> 25335 ttys000    0:00.08 tail -f /var/log/smokeping.log
> 57434 ttys001    0:00.00 grep smokeping
>
>
> I eventually killed the .cgi processes by specific pids:
> $ sudo kill -QUIT [pid]
>
> but this doesn't seem an acceptable method. Should I be running all probes
> in a single process? Is it intentional that smokeping spawns two instances
> of smokeping.cgi?
>
>
> Earlier attempts:
>
> $ sudo launchctl stop /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.smokeping.plist
> launchctl stop error: No such process
>
>
> $ sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.smokeping.plist
> launchctl: Error unloading: org.macports.smokeping
>
>
> $ sudo smokeping stop
> ### parsing dig output...OK
> Note: logging to syslog as local1/info.
> ERROR: I Quit! Another copy of /opt/local/bin/smokeping (92373) seems to be
> running.
>       Check /var/run/smokeping.pid
>
>
> Your assistance is much appreciated!
>
>
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