Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unnecessary; but would using /run for the pidfile be a better > (e.g., simpler) solution? > > If not then do you think the TCP-socket approach is the way > to deal with every program that writes a pidfile when /var/ > may be absent?
Pump doesn't write pid files. It uses a Unix-domain socket to communicate with its previous incarnation, and failing that, a TCP socket. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt