Stop Checkmate

checkmate-svr.sh

#
# Function that stops the daemon/service
#
do_stop()
{
  if [ ! -e $PIDFILE ]; then
    return 2
  fi
  pid=`cat $PIDFILE`
  children=$(ps axo pid,ppid | awk "{ if ( \$2 == $pid ) { print \$1 }}")
  if [ "$children" = "" ]; then   # add this check:
    kill $pid                     # if there are no child processes, then just kill the one process.
  else
    for child in $children
    do
      # echo "Killing child process $child because ppid = $pid"
      kill $child
    done
  fi
  rm $PIDFILE

  return 0
}

Thanks. Got it.