Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:20:14 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Andrey Novikov <novikov@webclub.ru> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nonpriveleged daemons and pid files Message-ID: <623.950862014@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:02:32 EST." <20000217220232.A53575@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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Since nobody else seems to have mentioned the solution I use, I'll
describe it here.
Quite simple really; I use /var/run/<daemon_name>/ for each
non-priveledged daemon. I still haven't run into a daemon that could be
configured to run non-priveledged but could not be configured to use an
arbitrary run state directory. I suppose I'd run into more of them if I
installed pre-compiled binaries. However, many fine daemons allow for
run-time specification of the pid_file location.
The drawback is that you don't have all your pid_files in one directory.
However, if the daemon_name directory names are carefully chosen, it's
not hard to find the pid_files with an ls command or even...
kill -HUP `find /var/run -name exim.pid -exec cat {} \;`
Ciao,
Sheldon.
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