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

[Dominik Westner]

Hi Mike,

well I know about start-stop-daemon.

So you say, that instead of using a daemon's write pid feature (if it 
can be disabled at all) I should use start-stop-daemons write pid 
feature?

I haven't tried it out lately, but I always thought that this feature 
only works for executables which don't daemonize themselves. (I might 
be wrong here.).

Thanks

Dominik


On Donnerstag, September 5, 2002, at 05:29 PM, mike wrote:

> if you look at existing scripts (like /etc/init.d/samba) you see that
> they use 'start-stop-daemon' ... for more information on how to
> use it, run `start-stop-daemon --help` ...
> -mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dominik Westner" <lists@×××××××××××.com>
> To: <gentoo-dev@g.o>
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 02:52
> Subject: [gentoo-dev] questions about /var/run and pids
>
>
>> 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
>>
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