On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 04:41:00PM +0000, Guy Helmer wrote: > Author: ghelmer > Date: Wed Feb 1 16:40:59 2012 > New Revision: 230869 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/230869 > > Log: > Change the notes about the pidfile to include Doug's preference > for pre-creating the pidfile with appropriate owner and permissions. > > Requested by dougb
Pre-creating pidfiles? That sounds weird. The common practise is to turn eg. /var/run/<name>.pid into /var/run/<name>/pid where <name> directory has appropriate permissions. Pre-creating pidfiles is simply wrong, because applications create pidfile on start and unlink it on exit. If application has no permission to remove files from /var/run/ it will leave pidfile with stale PID in it, which is bad. Changing application to truncate pidfile on exit instead of unlinking it also is a bad idea especially because there is working solution - pid directory. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com FreeBSD committer http://www.FreeBSD.org Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://tupytaj.pl
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