could we, for the moment, just have an environment variable that overrides the 
default? Meaning that when it is not there, we write the PID to standard; when 
it is there, we write the PID where it indicates we want it to be. That should 
satisfy worries over changing this?

René.

> On 21 Nov 2018, at 13:07, Michael Lueck <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Greetings Rick,
> 
> Rick McGuire wrote:
>> It's not really that simple. I believe writing the pid file at that location 
>> is part of the requirements for running as a daemon on other unix-based 
>> systems. I wish David Ashley were still around, he did all of that work and 
>> would know the issues.
> 
> 
> Ah yes, the PID file... I believe that is what I had to hack the path of in 
> the source code in order to build/compile to be run as a non-root user on 
> Linux. Correct?
> 
> Did that ever get correctly resolved, that you can build/run ooRexx v5 with a 
> custom prefix directory, jailing it to the user's home directory?
> 
> Yes yes, I am aware that the socket still gets opened in the context of the 
> entire machine, so only one user could run ooRexx at a time. I do not think 
> desiring to run ooRexx on Shared Web Hosting servers is common, sadly... not 
> concerned about that risk.
> 
> I am thankful,
> 
> -- 
> Michael Lueck
> Lueck Data Systems
> http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
> 
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