Hi.

I recently saw that all courier daemons write a PID file to /var/run/courier 
except for courierd.

As I use "monit" for monitoring, there must be a PID file for every service 
monitored (limitation of "monit"). When setting monit up, I simply forgot to 
monitor courierd because the absent PID file. 

Apart from that, a crashed courierd is very hard to detect because there's no 
TCP port to watch and the queue (reported by mailq) does not fill up or 
something like that.

It's just that messages are no longer processed in any way.

So I think it would ease up monitoring a lot if courierd would write a PID 
file as all other services do.


My setup: courier-0.59.0 on gentoo linux (I know it's old but regarding the 
changelogs ince then, this was not changed afterwards).

cu,
Bernd

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