From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 13 15:25:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.perimeter.co.za (dns.perimeter.co.za [196.25.164.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6172A37B41F for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (ndf-dial-196-30-126-228.mweb.co.za [196.30.126.228]) by dns.perimeter.co.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g3DMNHL58450; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 00:23:20 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Patrick O'Reilly" Organization: Perimeter Networks CC Message-Id: <200204140023.47428@.perimeter.co.za> To: m p , John Mills , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: S/Key - this is embarrasing. Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 00:28:02 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20020413190545.5041.qmail@web13306.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020413190545.5041.qmail@web13306.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat 13 Apr 02 21:05, m p wrote: > Hi John, > > I wanted to correct a statement with that question. It was: "no other > unices were using files with process ids". They are doing it - but in > the rc.d scripts (it is hidden from the user). > Marc, I am aware that the rc.d script just wrap up the kill to the blood off the user's fingers :) When I said "I'm not aware of other Unices that use this convention ( kill SIGHUP /var/run/${procname}.pid )." I was focussing on the convention of creating a file in /var/run/ which notes the pid in use by the daemon. Again, I might well be wrong in that assumption too. :) -- Regards, Patrick O'Reilly.     ___        _            __    / _ )__ __ (_)_ __ ___ _/ /____ __   / __/ -_) _) /  ~  ) -_), ,-/ -_) _)  /_/  \__/_//_/_/~/_/\__/ \__/\__/_/     http://www.perimeter.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message