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From: lostcontrol <lostcontrol@a942ae1a-1317-0410-a47c-b1dcaea8d605>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:04:52 +0000
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git-svn-id: https://fail2ban.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fail2ban/trunk@99 a942ae1a-1317-0410-a47c-b1dcaea8d605
---
 fail2ban.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fail2ban.py b/fail2ban.py
index d7ee42df..bc2f1f80 100755
--- a/fail2ban.py
+++ b/fail2ban.py
@@ -203,7 +203,12 @@ def killPID(pid):
 	""" Kills the process with the given PID using the
 		INT signal (same effect as <ctrl>+<c>).
 	"""
-	return os.kill(pid, 2)
+	try:
+		return os.kill(pid, 2)
+	except OSError:
+		logSys.error("Can not kill process " + `pid` + ". Please check that " +
+					"Fail2Ban is not running and remove the file " +
+					"'/tmp/fail2ban.pid'")
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":