Ionutz Borcoman writes: > Hi, > > For a daemon, how do I code the location of the pidfile ? Normaly it in > /var/run, but some systems, like our old SCO, don't have this directory. > So where should I put this pidfile, by default ?
The arguably easiest way is to create /var/run where it doesn't exist and just use it. Maybe combined with a -v flag for the daemon that lists the version, full path name of the actual pid file and maybe other relevant info.
