From b174a2e8585678b8bb1d4dd7a0a678fce1f93fcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cyril Jaquier <cyril.jaquier@fail2ban.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:40:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] - Fixed PID file while started in daemon mode. Thanks to
 Christian Jobic who submitted a similar patch.

git-svn-id: https://fail2ban.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fail2ban/branches/FAIL2BAN-0_8@680 a942ae1a-1317-0410-a47c-b1dcaea8d605
---
 ChangeLog        |  2 ++
 server/server.py | 19 ++++++++++---------
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4983803cea..06173d066c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ ver. 0.8.3 (2008/??/??) - stable
   Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko.
 - Fixed socket path in redhat and suse init script. Thanks to
   Jim Wight.
+- Fixed PID file while started in daemon mode. Thanks to
+  Christian Jobic who submitted a similar patch.
 
 ver. 0.8.2 (2008/03/06) - stable
 ----------
diff --git a/server/server.py b/server/server.py
index f363ca6e61..7a6640f3f5 100644
--- a/server/server.py
+++ b/server/server.py
@@ -59,15 +59,6 @@ def __sigTERMhandler(self, signum, frame):
 	def start(self, sock, force = False):
 		logSys.info("Starting Fail2ban v" + version.version)
 		
-		# Creates a PID file.
-		try:
-			logSys.debug("Creating PID file %s" % Server.PID_FILE)
-			pidFile = open(Server.PID_FILE, 'w')
-			pidFile.write("%s\n" % os.getpid())
-			pidFile.close()
-		except IOError, e:
-			logSys.error("Unable to create PID file: %s" % e)
-		
 		# Install signal handlers
 		signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, self.__sigTERMhandler)
 		signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, self.__sigTERMhandler)
@@ -81,6 +72,16 @@ def start(self, sock, force = False):
 			else:
 				logSys.error("Could not create daemon")
 				raise ServerInitializationError("Could not create daemon")
+		
+		# Creates a PID file.
+		try:
+			logSys.debug("Creating PID file %s" % Server.PID_FILE)
+			pidFile = open(Server.PID_FILE, 'w')
+			pidFile.write("%s\n" % os.getpid())
+			pidFile.close()
+		except IOError, e:
+			logSys.error("Unable to create PID file: %s" % e)
+		
 		# Start the communication
 		logSys.debug("Starting communication")
 		try: