Starting nslcd fails if the daemon has died but the pid file exists fails

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Issue

  • If the pid file of nslcd exists, but the process is dead, attempting to start the nslcd daemon fails with:
# service nslcd start
nslcd dead but pid file exists

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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