Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:48:30 -0500
From:      "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To:        Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: non-root process and PID files
Message-ID:  <3F9D060E.26143.B02C07F@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3F9D4A45.8070400@fillmore-labs.com>
References:  <3F9CF3F6.8307.ABC1250@localhost>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 27 Oct 2003 at 17:39, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:

> Dan Langille wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> You may have problems removing the file on exit, though.

The plan was to not remove it.
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3F9D060E.26143.B02C07F>