From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Description of problem: The command killproc 'java -cp /home/ucsc/programs XferClient' (just as an example.) worked under redhat 7.2 and 7.3, but now it doesn't because the command contains whitespace in it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Write a program that runs forever. i.e. an endless loop. Name the command something with whitespace in it. Java programs automatically fit this description, because the usual execution is 'java program-name' 2.Create init script that starts the program running as a daemon, then stop this program using 'killproc' 3. Run script Actual Results: killproc fails with an error message. Expected Results: Program should successfully die. Additional info: Program would start and stop normally under redhat 7.2 and 7.3. The new killproc function in redhat 9 (maybe 8 also?) doesn't like program names with whitespace in them, even if qouted. Workaround is to use the functions script from redhat 7.2 for these type of commands.
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of response. Please attempt to reproduce on a current release, such as Fedora Core 4. If this issue persists, please open a new bug.