Comment 1 for bug 712681

--pidfile is no longer a supported flag in Bexar Nova. Ever since paste.deploy was introduced, although FLAGS.pidfile exists, it doesn't do anything anymore for the bin/* programs.

Two bugs are evident:

* FLAGS.pidfile should be removed. It is obselete and confusing for users who see it on the --help output
* No documentation exists for using the configuration file examples in etc/ (for instance, the etc/nova-api.conf file).

You can control the pidfile used in startup by using paster. Since Nova is now using paste.deploy, you can refer to this documentation on starting/stopping/reloading server daemons with paste.script:

http://pythonpaste.org/script/

Cheers,
jay