From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 18:37:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA9237B401 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp100.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp100.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [216.136.174.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E90843F85 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:37:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from r11roadster@yahoo.com) Received: from ip-24-197-140-177.spart.sc.charter.com (HELO Tarabon) (r11roadster@24.197.140.177 with login) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Jul 2003 01:37:52 -0000 From: "Ronny Hippler" To: "freebsd questions" Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:37:51 -0400 Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2717) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600;1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20030717013753.4E90843F85@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: /var/run/ pid files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Ronny Hippler List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 01:37:54 -0000 On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:31:47 +0100, lewiz wrote: >> What controls the creation of the pid files in the /var/run/ directory?= >afaik, sometimes you have to create them yourself. Some programmes >don't have an option to create one. This can be done easily using a >combination of ps, grep and awk ;) There's probably a more professional >way of doing it, but I don't know (I'd be interested to hear though ;) Wonder what is creating that directory then? -- Bugs come in through open Windows. Ronny Hippler || Spartanburg SC http://www.vr5.dyndns.org:8008/ || ftp://ftp.vr5.dyndns.org:2112/ For PGP key email with "PGPKey" in the subject