* Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031113 11:46]: > Jos Backus wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:31:18AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Why use pid files at all if you could be using a process supervisor instead? > > Who supervises the supervisor? Sure, you can take the English > Bobby approach (init dies, the kernel yells "Help me, human, or > I shall yell 'Help me Human!' again", and tries to start software > that will never start over and over), but that solves nothing;
Let the supervisor be process 1: http://multivac.cwru.edu/svscan-1/ http://smarden.org/runit/ http://www.fefe.de/minit/ qvb -- pica _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
