Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 22:38:35 -0700 From: Lee Brown <leeb@ratnaling.org> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can't get pidfile to work in rc script Message-ID: <CAFPNf59t_=34ZZjvvErxuxJW4UHkqJS=CPS=09Geokpt8V-DrA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <06325ee3-e920-d924-4c37-1bff6ec1e2c6@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAFPNf59m3BGLiNxkWK%2Bo5TRa=CNmh4vTmv7PZBmMbhYaBdj5Vw@mail.gmail.com> <06325ee3-e920-d924-4c37-1bff6ec1e2c6@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 10:06 PM Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 21/09/2018 06:57, Lee Brown wrote:
> > I'm trying to get 2 separate sshd's running. I've created
> > /etc/rc.d/sshd_alternate but it always uses /var/run/sshd.pid and not
> > /var/run/sshd_alternate.pid. I tried
> >
> > sshd_alternate_pidfile="${pidfile}"
> > and
> > procname="sshd" / procname="/usr/sbin/sshd"
> >
> > to no avail. Can somebody provide some assistance, I'm sure this is
> simple
> > but I just can't fathom it.
>
> Did you create /etc/ssh/sshd_config.alternate? In there you'll need to
> at minimum configure sshd to use a different pidfile and to listen on
> alternate IPs / port numbers. It's the pidfile setting in the config
> file that sshd will use -- the setting in the rc.d script just tell the
> rc system where it can read the daemon's PID in order to signal it.
>
> Then you'll need the alternate rc.d startup script which you already
> seem to have in hand.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
Thank you Matthew,
Yes a separate port and config as you correctly surmise.
My assumption was that the rc framework created the pidfile. I'm going to
re-read the rc.subr manpage tomorrow as I obviously misunderstood how it
works.
Thanks to all - lee
>
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