respawning esd with supervise

[boglin]

I am posting because I am certain this is not the optimal solution; I'm hoping that some experts around the forum can give me some tips....

I had a small problem using EsounD(esd) on a computer connected to me stereo. I wanted xmms on my other pcs to pipe to EsounD on the stereo computer, which it did; it's only that it would do it once, and then I would have to restart /etc/init.d/esound. Did a little searching on google and found that RedHat has some kind of problem that is similiar, in so much as the posts showed during my search.

Anywho: I decided to use the daemontools package's supervise to keep esd alive. so I made a /service/esd directory. and edited /services/esd/run:

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#!/bin/bash
source /etc/conf.d/esound
/usr/bin/esd -- $ESD_START $ESD_OPTIONS

Made a new init-script: /etc/init.d/esd (instead of esound):

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#!/sbin/runscript
depend() {
        use net portmap alsasound
}

start() {
        rm /service/esd/down
        ebegin "Starting es daemon"
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --exec /usr/bin/supervise -- /service/esd/
        eend $?
}

stop() {
        ebegin "Stopping es daemon"
        touch /service/esd/down
        /usr/bin/svc -kx /service/esd/
        kill $(pidof esd)
        eend $?
}

Pretty simple, right? The wierd thing is that the "kill $(pidof..." is neccessary or else there is always an esd process hanging around after "#/etc/init.d/esd stop". Same result when "exec fghack" is prepended to the line in "run".
I supposed I should mention that this does succefully respawn esd; so now I can change tracks in xmms locally w/o ssh'ing to the box to restart esound.

Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions?

[nx12]

Hmm, I've got the same problem, though I use a simple dirty

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a=1; while [ $a ]; do esd  -d hw:0 -as 2; done

But I would be glad to know if someone solved this problem without hacks. Thanks in advance.