Hi Kostas:

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Kostas Georgiou
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This is easilly solved by using /var/run/gmetad/ to store the pid with the
> directory owned by whatever user gmetad runs as. Then you run with
> daemon --user ganglia $GMETAD --pid-file=/var/run/ganglia/gmetad.pid
> and everything is still fine without any root privileges.
>
> At the moment though the init doesn't tell gmetad to use a pid file
> anyway so this can't be the only reason.

Perhaps you can let us know what issue your approach would solve --
i.e. why the change?

Thanks,

Bernard

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