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I see, thanks. I'm looking at the chkircd script and I have two questions if someone wouldn't mind.

First, is there an advantage to using the "test -r" command to see if the pid file exists over merely using the -e switch with if?

Second, in the line:
if `kill -CHLD $ircdpid >/dev/null 2>&1 ...

In the event of a crash/shutdown, does Unreal remove the ircd.pid file from it's directory, or does it stay until the next start? I'm writing a small shell script to check whether or not the IRCd is running so it would be helpful to know what happens to the file. Thanks.