On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:17:47AM -0700, jth wrote:
> Take a look at the --priority option. You'll have to start the
> server as root to use this, so also use --user and --group to
> change the effective ids of the server after it starts.

editing scripts that i don't want to have to do every time i upgrade...

> There's also a --pidfile option as well if you prefer.

ok, that brings up a better question: why isn't that the default?

i ask because i pity the poor bastard named 'david slim' (username
'slimd') who gets some random process rolled over by the stop script.
i'd be angry if some user started a process called slimdevicesrules.sh
and then my slimserver wouldn't start because there's already a "server
running". tough luck to someone trying to stop their slimserver running
as user 'grep'!

i could come up with more contrived examples, but the point is that using
a pidfile by default would avoid these and similar problems.

-- bill fumerola 


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