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Eric Blake wrote:

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>According to Norton Allen on 1/29/2007 8:00 PM:
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>>>>   PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
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>>>>
>>>No, this is a text mount:
>>>      
>>>
>
>That's the answer.  You are creating PIDFILE with \r\n line endings, but
>cat always reads in binary mode.
>
>Try PID=`cat $PIDFILE | d2u` instead.  Or try using the igncr shell option.
>  
>
OK... Note that 'I' am not doing this. This is part of the apachectl 
script, and sticking | d2u in there isn't a very portable solution. 
Perhaps I should just adjust mount points so /var/run is a binary mount 
point.


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