[Bug 1750942] [NEW] stale pid for watchdog service

[Arijit Banerjee]

Public bug reported:

The init script for the watchdog service does not seem to remove the pid
file corresponding to the watchdog and wd_keepalive daemons while
stopping them using start-stop-daemon

This behaviour was observed on Ubuntu 14.04 and this logic appears to be
present even on the latest versions of the watchdog package
(watchdog_5.15-2).

Not deleting the pid file appears to be incorrect behaviour in init
scripts. Is this a known issue?

** Affects: watchdog (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  stale pid for watchdog service

Status in watchdog package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The init script for the watchdog service does not seem to remove the
  pid file corresponding to the watchdog and wd_keepalive daemons while
  stopping them using start-stop-daemon

  This behaviour was observed on Ubuntu 14.04 and this logic appears to
  be present even on the latest versions of the watchdog package
  (watchdog_5.15-2).

  Not deleting the pid file appears to be incorrect behaviour in init
  scripts. Is this a known issue?

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