Re: Pidfiles for daemons running as daemon or noboby

1999-05-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 22 May 1999, Bob Hilliard wrote: >For security reasons, it is frequently recommended that daemons >that do not require root privileges be run as `noboby' or as >`daemon'. Since root privileges are required to write to /var/run, >such daemons can not write a standard pidfile. > > One ob

Pidfiles for daemons running as daemon or noboby

1999-05-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
For security reasons, it is frequently recommended that daemons that do not require root privileges be run as `noboby' or as `daemon'. Since root privileges are required to write to /var/run, such daemons can not write a standard pidfile. One obvious solution is to hack the source so it