> I have slapt-update-notifier 0.4.1 installed using Slack 13.0
> 
> It seems that running the init script:
> "/etc/rc.d/rc.slapt-update-notifier stop"
> doesn't stop the slapt-update-notifier-d. This is run as root of
> course. Manually killing the slapt-update-notifier-d PID doesn't work
> either.

Do you have a stale /var/run/slapt-update-notifier-d.pid with a different 
than the actual running process?  

Try the current git code to see if it makes a difference: 

http://software.jaos.org/git/slapt-update-notifier/snapshot/slapt-update-notifier-469ae422e1a6d6429fc64adc86aec71bcc86a6ff.tar.gz


take care,
jason
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Jason Woodward
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