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I have the following lines in one of my /etc/init.d scripts to start a service:

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start-stop-daemon --start --quiet -c www --background --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null \                                                                                     
                || return 1                                                                                                                                                                             
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet -c www --background --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- \                                                                                                     
                $DAEMON_ARGS \                                                                                                                                                                           
                || return 2                                     

This is pretty much straight out of the provided skeleton file apart from the _-c www_ option.

The problem is that the pid file is not created, the PIDFILE var is correct but start-stop-daemon seems to ignore the --pidfile option. Anyone else seen this or know of another way I can create the pid file.

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I just worked it out myself, I needed to add a -m or --make-pidfile option also.