Smokeping on pfSense

BBcan177

@BBcan177:

In pfSense, the option to "Restart WebConfigurator" runs the following code below. So it will kill all pids that use "lighttpd".

Boo, did not realize that the bug is in pfSense itself :( Didn't restart WebConfigurator lately, so never noticed this.

Thank you for clarification. And yes, link in this case would help (but not copy!).

Well technically its not a "bug"… I think its best that they kill "Lighttpd" by name instead of trying to kill by pid. They would want a foolproof way of doing that and killbyname does it perfectly... So i think this work around is a good approach and I think cleaner.

dgcom

So you mean - killbyname in case something happened to pid file?
I wouldn't do it like that, but I am not developing pfSense. If developers need to killbyname, they should be using link with different name themselves :)

I am not here to judge this. If that's how it is done currently, we'll use workaround, I just don't like that many workarounds around pfSense :(