Stop the daemon

def stop(self):
        """
        Stop the daemon
        """
        # Get the pid from the pidfile
        try:
            pf = file(self.pidfile,'r')
            pid = int(pf.read().strip())
            pf.close()
        except IOError:
            pid = None

        if not pid:
            message = "pidfile %s does not exist. Daemon not running?\n"
            sys.stderr.write(message % self.pidfile)
            return # not an error in a restart

        # Try killing the daemon process
        try:
            while 1:
                pgid = os.getpgid(pid)
                os.killpg(pgid, SIGTERM) # let's kill the whole process tree so that there are no zombies left
                # os.kill(pid, SIGTERM)
                time.sleep(0.1)
        except OSError, err:
            err = str(err)
            if err.find("No such process") > 0:
                os.remove(self.pidfile)
            else:
                print str(err)
                sys.exit(1)