On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Jeff Malka wrote:
>If you start imwheel when logged in as root, root owns the created
>imwheel.pid file and only root can delete it. Therefore the command
>imwheel -k issued by the other user will fail because it cannot delete and
>replace a root created pid. At least that is what I found out.
>
>If I change the permission of the root imwheel.pid to the username, then the
>command imwheel -k issued by the user works because it can replace the
>previous pid file with the user pid. However if I happen to login as root
>just once and use imwheel, I am back to square one because there now is a
>root created pid file!
I would suggest you put the delete command for the file in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local
All commands in there are run from the root account, so after booting you
should be fine. Or put the command in the root's ~/.logout (or something
like that) file, The commands in there are executed when root logs out.
Paul
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