pid file

[Peter Van Epp]

> 
> Gentle people,
>    So I've put pid file support into "J", which should be on the
> server late this afternoon.  There are a number of issues with
> this support, so I would love some comments.
> 

	OK :-) when I ripped off the Shadow perl scripts to start argus this
issue came up. They solve it by having an instance name for the task (which
is of course easier when you are launching a program from perl than internal
to argus). I'd like to see a way of keeping that (because I sometimes do run
more than one argus although not usually on the same interface). Perhaps yet
another command line argument to set an instance name (which will cause a
pid file of the form "instance_name.pid" instead of the default "argus.pid"
or something similar?)  for those of us wanting to do odd things?

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada