From owner-cvs-all Sat Aug 14 7:58:40 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD6615024; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 07:58:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA55954; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:58:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:58:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Mark Murray 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 In-Reply-To: <199908141452.QAA23532@gratis.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Mark Murray wrote: > > 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). So we're expected to do something like this? p=$( > M > -- > Mark Murray > Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org > > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message