[ovs-dev] [PATCH] initscript: pass complete path to pidfile to status command

[Ben Pfaff]

Ian Campbell <ian.campbell at citrix.com> writes:

> Older versions of RHEL/CentOS used pifof in preference to the pidfile
> and hence we got away with passing just the basename instead of
> including the full path. Using pidof first doesn't make much sense and
> this was fixed in RHEL 5 update 4 (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440658)
>
> This means that on RHEL 5.4 "service vswitch status" always returned
> "ovs-vswitchd is stopped" even if it was running. Fix this issue by
> passing in the correct pidfile name.

Thanks Ian.  I pushed your patch directly to the xs5.7 branch and
I will shortly push a similar patch to master, so that it will
eventually propagate everywhere that it should matter.