How do you know when your UNIX service (daemon) is ready? Simple, it has created a PID file, signalling to you how to reach it. Usually this file is created as /var/run/daemon.pid, or /run/daemon.pid, and has the PID of daemon as the first and only data in the file. This data may or may not have a UNIX line ending. Only trouble is: most UNIX daemons do not re-assert that PID file properly on SIGHUP (if they support SIGHUP that is). When I send SIGHUP to a daemon I expect it to re-read its /et...
