On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 09:51:45PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > The external PID file, if configured, is currently generated with 600 > permissions, which results from the umask setting in the postmaster. I > think it would be nicer if we could make that 644. > > I have often dealt with scripts and such that look through PID files > in /var/run, and it's always annoying when some PID file is not readable > for some reason or no reason at all. (One simple benefit is that you > don't need extra privileges to check whether the process is alive.) > Almost all PID files on my system are world-readable now.
+1 for making this world-readable. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers