I just discovered a problem with two ports that I maintain, and I need
help figuring out how to fix it. The ports in question are
security/sguil-sensor and security/sguil-server. The problem, which I
just discovered today, is that, if both ports are installed on the same
machine (not the normal configuration), they create a pidfile with the
exact same name. Therefore, only one of the two ports will run at any
given time.
I don't understand why this is happening. The sguil-sensor port uses an
init file named "sensor-agent.sh" and the sguil-server port uses an init
file named "sguild.sh". Both init scripts have the following in them:
check_process="${command} /bin/sh". Both ports require special stop
routines to get them to stop properly.
Both processes create a pid named sguild.pid. I looked at man rc.subr,
but I don't see how to set the pidfile rather than checking for it. Is
there a way to force the processes to create unique pidfile names?
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
