[gentoo-dev] questions about /var/run and pids

[Dominik Westner]

Hi all,

when creating some ebuilds I quite often run into the following problem:

I have a daemon program which should run under a specific user. 
Additionally I think a good daemon should always write their pid in 
/var/run.

Problem: /var/run is only writable by root. Therefore only daemons 
which run as root can put their pid into /var/run.

I think a better approach would be to have /var/run owned and being 
writeable by group 'daemon'.
Every daemon program could then belong to the daemon group and write 
its pid into /var/run.

Or do I simply miss something?

Dominik