On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 09:08:15AM -0400, Chad Gatesman wrote: > Is there a major reason the -p option to generate a pid file is ignored > when running haproxy the foreground (e.g. using -db)? It would be nice if > this file was still generated when specified--even in foreground mode. > Could this be something that could be changed in a future releases?
No it's not planned because all -dXXX are mainly debugging/development switches. -db is used all the time during development since it allows one to stop haproxy by a simple Ctrl-C. This is the only way I start it when developing or troubleshooting configs. Having haproxy fail to start because of an unwritable directory to write the pid file would be really annoying. I really don't understand why this would be useful to you. A pid file makes sense for a background process since it saves you from searching it. But a foreground process, what's the purpose ? Normally you're supposed to stop it using Ctrl-C, so I fail to catch your use case. Regards, Willy
