Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:35:31 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: sdafreebsduk@rowyerboat.com Cc: "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@ridecharge.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Question about rc-scripts Message-ID: <63EFB59B-E889-412B-8E42-ABFFB4C1EDFF@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <470C19D5.1060101@rowyerboat.com> References: <470AB2FC.8070006@rowyerboat.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20071008183414.025a1e88@mail.computinginnovations.com> <470AD44A.4070601@rowyerboat.com> <470AD780.30702@ridecharge.com> <470C19D5.1060101@rowyerboat.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Oct 9, 2007, at 5:16 PM, sdafreebsduk@rowyerboat.com wrote: >> Most binaries i.e. httpd, memcached, mysqld, etc... provide a >> config file or cli option to provide the path to a pid file. > > Like you say - I can't find anything in rc.subr that would create a > pid. So, I looked in /etc/rc.d/ntpd (for example), and I still > can't find in there where it might create a pid. In the case of ntpd, the default arguments look like this: /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid ... ...so the ntpd process creates the pidfile. -- -Chuck
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?63EFB59B-E889-412B-8E42-ABFFB4C1EDFF>