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Date:      Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:52:55 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>, "Vanilla I. Shu" <vanilla@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/security/xinetd Makefile ports/security/xinetd/files md5 
Message-ID:  <199908141452.QAA23532@gratis.grondar.za>

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> 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
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