On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:17:55PM +0200, Lars Noodin wrote: > How should I go about recording the process id for the OpenNTP daemon? > Usually processes get written in /var/run/ > > Many daemons allow relocation via options or the config file e.g. > /usr/sbin/apt-cacher -d -p /var/run/apt-cacher.pid; > /usr/local/sbin/dnsmasq --pid-file=/var/run/dnsmasq.pid; > > I've checked in the man pages for ntpd and ntpd.conf but these options > are not mentioned. > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ntpd > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ntpd.conf > > How is it done? >
We don't believe in pid files. Use pgrep(1) and pkill(1) instead, you will never have stale info that way. -- :wq Claudio
