Bug 85796

Summary: pidof: -x does not work as expected
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Need Real Name <kyriacou>
Component: sysvinitAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Need Real Name 2003-03-07 20:54:43 UTC
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Description of problem:
if i have the following process given by ps -efw
root      8484     1  0 15:34 pts/1    00:00:00 /usr/bin/python
/usr/local/bin/nodeinfo

in 8.0 i dont get the expected process id if i do pidof -x /usr/local/bin/nodeinfo: 

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a small script eg /usr/local/bin/nodeinfo in python 
2. run it with python /usr/local/bin/nodeinfo
3.Try to find process id using 
    pidof -x /usr/local/bin/nodeinfo

Actual Results:  in redhat 8.0
[root]# pidof -x /usr/local/bin/nodeinfo

[root]# 


Expected Results:  in redhat 7.3
[root]# pidof -x /usr/local/bin/nodeinfo
8484
root]# 


Additional info:

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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-04-25 21:25:16 UTC
Fixed in 2.85-38

Comment 5 David Lawrence 2007-06-22 02:10:49 UTC
Package name is now sysvinit in Fedora.