pid file
Clauss Strauch
Clauss_Strauch at aquila.fac.cs.cmu.edu
Thu Dec 21 11:37:16 EST 2000
Lots of OS's don't usually use pid files when starting/stopping
things run out of rc files, but use pgrep/pkill/killall or other programs
that lookup a process by name. For that reason, and because one sometimes
wants to have multiple argus's running on the same interface (eg to quickly
test out some command-line option), it's good to have the default behavior
be not to try to create a pid file, and have this feature be something you
have to explicitly turn on (which I think is a vote to keep the current
behavior).
On some OS's that don't have a standard /var/run directory
(eg Solaris), it's common practice to put .pid files for things run by rc.*
scripts in /etc/. For this reason, and for general reasons of flexibility,
it would be nice if you could specify exactly where .pid files go via some
config option.
-- Clauss Strauch
CMU School of Computer Science
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