From dc14b0628067e954e80c734af34cb7174642e332 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scott Walters <scott@slowass.net>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 08:38:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] stale PID file detection -- previous patch cleanup and
 supress uninit warning

---
 sbin/spectre.pl | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sbin/spectre.pl b/sbin/spectre.pl
index 141eff668..a81abab1d 100755
--- a/sbin/spectre.pl
+++ b/sbin/spectre.pl
@@ -114,10 +114,9 @@ elsif ($daemon) {
         die "Spectre is already running.\n";
     }
     elsif (-e $pidFileName){
-        # oh, ffs ... die "pidFile $pidFileName already exists\n";
         open my $pidFile, '<', $pidFileName or die "$pidFileName: $!";
         (my $pid) = readline $pidFile;
-        chomp $pid;
+        chomp $pid if defined $pid;
         if(defined $pid and $pid =~ m/^(\d+)$/) {
             if(kill 0, $1) {
                 die "$0: already running as PID $1";