From owner-cvs-all Sat Aug 14 7:53:17 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750E115024; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 07:52:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA23532; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:52:56 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199908141452.QAA23532@gratis.grondar.za> To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Chris Piazza , "Vanilla I. Shu" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security/xinetd Makefile ports/security/xinetd/files md5 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:52:55 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I'd like to take this opportunity to note that anything that creates > a /var/run/%s.pid should unlink it when it goes away. How could you > do that from a startup script? You are incorrect. Programs that care should look for the process with the PID in that file, and if it is not found, should do something sane (like restart the errant process or rm the file). M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message