Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:19:22 -0800 From: Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: non-root process and PID files Message-ID: <20031111071944.GA5778@lizzy.catnook.com> In-Reply-To: <3F9CF3F6.8307.ABC1250@localhost> References: <3F9CF3F6.8307.ABC1250@localhost>
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:31:18AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
> If a process starts up and does a setuid, should it be writing the
> PID file before or after the setuid?
>
> Two methods exists AFAIK:
>
> 1 - write your PID immediately, and the file is chown root:wheel
> 2 - write your PID to /var/run/myapp/myapp.pid where /var/run/myapp/
> is chown myapp:myapp
>
> Of the two, I think #1 is cleaner as it does not require another
> directory with special permissions.
>
> Any suggestions?
Why use pid files at all if you could be using a process supervisor instead?
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