Merge branch 'master' into forward-port

[sliver-openvswitch.git] / planetlab / scripts / start_vswitchd

diff --git a/planetlab/scripts/start_vswitchd b/planetlab/scripts/start_vswitchd
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/planetlab/scripts/start_vswitchd
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+PIDF=/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.pid
+
+if [ ! -f "$PIDF" ]; then
+       sudo ovs-vswitchd --pidfile --detach --log-file >/dev/null
+fi
+while [ ! -f "$PIDF" ]; do
+       echo "Waiting for ovs-vswitchd to start..." >&2
+       sleep 1;
+done
+cat "$PIDF"