Re: disable pid file writing?

2013-05-10 Thread Tim Bannister
On 10 May 2013, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: On Wed, 08 May 2013 19:08:56 -0500 Daniel Ruggeri drugg...@primary.net wrote: On 5/8/2013 3:29 PM, Rainer Jung wrote: Careful: I didn't test it but we delete the pid file during web server shutdown. That might remove /dev/null then. On a

Re: disable pid file writing?

2013-05-09 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On Wed, 08 May 2013 19:08:56 -0500 Daniel Ruggeri drugg...@primary.net wrote: On 5/8/2013 3:29 PM, Rainer Jung wrote: Careful: I didn't test it but we delete the pid file during web server shutdown. That might remove /dev/null then. On a quick look through the code I had the impression

Re: disable pid file writing?

2013-05-08 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On Mon, 6 May 2013 23:42:27 +0100 Tom Jones t...@inpher.com wrote: We use process supervision and don't have a use for pid files. We are running multiple httpd instances, and have the config management to create a writable configured place for each instance to put its pid file. Surely you

Re: disable pid file writing?

2013-05-08 Thread Rainer Jung
On 08.05.2013 20:06, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On Mon, 6 May 2013 23:42:27 +0100 Tom Jones t...@inpher.com wrote: We use process supervision and don't have a use for pid files. We are running multiple httpd instances, and have the config management to create a writable configured place

Re: disable pid file writing?

2013-05-08 Thread Daniel Ruggeri
On 5/8/2013 3:29 PM, Rainer Jung wrote: Careful: I didn't test it but we delete the pid file during web server shutdown. That might remove /dev/null then. On a quick look through the code I had the impression you can not easily get rid of the pid file. Agreed - setting to /dev/null under the

disable pid file writing?

2013-05-06 Thread Tom Jones
We use process supervision and don't have a use for pid files. We are running multiple httpd instances, and have the config management to create a writable configured place for each instance to put its pid file. This config management has some ongoing cost to maintain, and we would find it nicer