Re: Sophie v3.05 and sophos-ide-update.pl disagree on PID?

Alan, (Alain talking to Alan :-)

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:23:19AM +0000, Alan Thew wrote:
> I mailed the list last month...
> 
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:38 , Alan Thew <[email protected]> said:
> 
> >On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:21 , Alain Fauconnet <[email protected]> said:
> >
> >>Hello readers,
> >>
> >>I've eventually taken the step from Sophie v1.44 to v3.05 (*).
> >>Everything is file except that sophos-ide-update.pl keeps saying:
> >>
> >>Which Sophie PID: 12360 or 12359? Using the later.
> >>SIGHUP sent to Sophie[12359]
> >>
> <snip> 
> >>
> >>>From http://www.vanja.com/listarc/vtools/2005-November/001822.html
> >>I understand that the right one would be 12360. Unfortunately that's not
> >>the one sophos-ide-update.pl chooses.
> >>
> >>Any input on this?
> >
> >All I can add is that we've seen this but only once (so far). It seems to
> >get it right most times. We're running ours on Linux.
> 
> It's happened twice on 5 days on one of our Red Hat boxes. Is anyone
> else seeing this?

I was seeing this coming up systematically until I eventually disabled
the lsof search in sophos-ide-update.pl, commenting out the $lsof_path
= ... line. As far as I can tell, the lsof method yields the wrong PID
with the current Sophie, and it takes precedence over the PID file, so
sophos-ide-update.pl HUPs the wrong process.

The PID file method is good enough for me, and sophos-ide-update.pl has
been working flawlessly since then.

I've had no reply from Mark Martinec to my report.

Greets,
_Alain_