From 9f8fa63b6ae4fab61111846fac27ac36f4d88e3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juan Jose Nicola <juan.nicola@greenbone.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:38:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add more information and problem resolution. The normal
 behavior of the pidfile is to prevent the daemon to be run twice. When the
 ospd-openvas daemon dies unexpectedly or it is killed with SIGKILL (-9)
 signal, leaves the pid file, which prevent the daemon to start again. If this
 is the case, the pidfile must be removed manually.

---
 ospd/misc.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ospd/misc.py b/ospd/misc.py
index d7b78f69..7c4db62e 100644
--- a/ospd/misc.py
+++ b/ospd/misc.py
@@ -104,7 +104,11 @@ def create_pid(pidfile: str) -> bool:
     pidpath = Path(pidfile)
 
     if pidpath.is_file():
-        LOGGER.error("There is an already running process.")
+        LOGGER.error(
+            "There is an already running process. If no process is running, "
+            "please remove the pid file '%s' manually",
+            str(pidpath.absolute()),
+        )
         return False
 
     try: