Russell Coker (russell(a)coker.com.au) said:
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 23:45, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> Russell Coker (russell(a)coker.com.au) said:
> > > While creating a new problem for finding pid files... do you go
> > > by the service name? The server name? Something else?
> >
> > How would the problem be any greater than it is right now?
>
> Right now it's basename of the process.
Except in the case of /var/run/sm-client.pid which has a process base-name of
"sendmail". I'm sure that there are other similar exceptions too.
There are overrides to the daemon function that makes some of this
work, but it doesn't work *well*.
> If you move to this new thing, do you do one dir per daemon?
One
> per process? Something else?
One per security context. So have /var/run/sendmail for sendmail.pid and
sm-client.pid as they are both part of the sendmail service.
Then there's really no good way for Joe Random Process to know
that the pid for sm-client is in the sendmail dir.
Bill