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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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