When verifying that test harness's SSH and SOCKS servers have been

started check also that the process is actually alive, since they
could have died once the pidfile was written out

diff --git a/tests/runtests.pl b/tests/runtests.pl
index 3e806ac..f3e1905 100755 (executable)
--- a/tests/runtests.pl
+++ b/tests/runtests.pl
@@ -661,14 +661,20 @@ sub verifyftp {
 
 sub verifyssh {
     my ($proto, $ip, $port) = @_;
-    my $pid;
+    my $pid = 0;
     if(open(FILE, "<$SSHPIDFILE")) {
         $pid=0+<FILE>;
         close(FILE);
-        logmsg "TRACESSH:verifyssh: pid from $SSHPIDFILE is $pid\n";
     }
-    else {
-        logmsg "TRACESSH:verifyssh: cannot open file $SSHPIDFILE\n";
+    if($pid > 0) {
+        # if we have a pid it is actually our ssh server,
+        # since runsshserver() unlinks previous pidfile
+        if(!kill(0, $pid) {
+            logmsg "RUN: SSH server has died after starting up\n";
+            checkdied($pid)
+            unlink($SSHPIDFILE);
+            $pid = -1;
+        }
     }
     return $pid;
 }
@@ -678,9 +684,21 @@ sub verifyssh {
 
 sub verifysocks {
     my ($proto, $ip, $port) = @_;
-    open(FILE, "<$SOCKSPIDFILE");
-    my $pid=0+<FILE>;
-    close(FILE);
+    my $pid = 0;
+    if(open(FILE, "<$SOCKSPIDFILE")) {
+        $pid=0+<FILE>;
+        close(FILE);
+    }
+    if($pid > 0) {
+        # if we have a pid it is actually our socks server,
+        # since runsocksserver() unlinks previous pidfile
+        if(!kill(0, $pid) {
+            logmsg "RUN: SOCKS server has died after starting up\n";
+            checkdied($pid)
+            unlink($SOCKSPIDFILE);
+            $pid = -1;
+        }
+    }
     return $pid;
 }
 
@@ -2500,7 +2518,7 @@ sub startservers {
             }
             if($what eq "socks4" || $what eq "socks5") {
                 if(!$run{'socks'}) {
-                    ($pid, $pid2) = runsocksserver("", 1);
+                    ($pid, $pid2) = runsocksserver("", $verbose);
                     if($pid <= 0) {
                         return "failed starting socks server";
                     }