Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:12:04 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libutil Makefile libutil.h pidfile.3 pidfile.c Message-ID: <20050825171046.X72462@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20050825154354.GE30465@funkthat.com> References: <200508241721.j7OHLcNP061118@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050825060448.Q11335@fledge.watson.org> <20050825154354.GE30465@funkthat.com>
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John-Mark Gurney wrote: >> Something I'd very much like to see is for daemon pid files to start >> being placed in /var/run/<daemon>/<daemon>.pid, as opposed to directly >> in /var/run. This will allow us to set specific ownership on the >> parent directory for a pid file, so that privilege is not required to >> write out a pid file in a safe place. > > why not add an rc.subr option to precreate the file with the correct > user? I was running up conserver, and I decided to run it as a seperate > user, and since I created it as owned by the conserver user, conserver > just opened and wrote to the file.. We already actually run bind with a pid file in /var/run/named. I'm not sure we need a whole lot of magic, other than having mtree create the directories for base system components, and packages/ports create them for third party components. Robert N M Watson
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