Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:31:18 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: non-root process and PID files Message-ID: <3F9CF3F6.8307.ABC1250@localhost>
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If a process starts up and does a setuid, should it be writing the
PID file before or after the setuid?
Two methods exists AFAIK:
1 - write your PID immediately, and the file is chown root:wheel
2 - write your PID to /var/run/myapp/myapp.pid where /var/run/myapp/
is chown myapp:myapp
Of the two, I think #1 is cleaner as it does not require another
directory with special permissions.
Any suggestions?
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Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
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