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if you look at existing scripts (like /etc/init.d/samba) you see that |
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they use 'start-stop-daemon' ... for more information on how to |
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use it, run `start-stop-daemon --help` ... |
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-mike |
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----- Original Message ----- |
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From: "Dominik Westner" <lists@×××××××××××.com> |
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To: <gentoo-dev@g.o> |
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Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 02:52 |
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Subject: [gentoo-dev] questions about /var/run and pids |
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> Hi all, |
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> |
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> when creating some ebuilds I quite often run into the following problem: |
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> |
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> I have a daemon program which should run under a specific user. |
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> Additionally I think a good daemon should always write their pid in |
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> /var/run. |
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> |
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> Problem: /var/run is only writable by root. Therefore only daemons |
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> which run as root can put their pid into /var/run. |
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> |
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> I think a better approach would be to have /var/run owned and being |
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> writeable by group 'daemon'. |
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> Every daemon program could then belong to the daemon group and write |
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> its pid into /var/run. |
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> |
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> Or do I simply miss something? |
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> |
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> Dominik |
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