Subject: Re: msql package
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rrzc1.rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 04/18/1998 10:29:07
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Eric Delcamp wrote:
>
> > PID file
> > /var/run/msql2d/pid my choice
> ^
> msql2d.pid, if anything outside of $PREFIX at all...
> Though i wouldn't mind putting this in /usr/pkg/etc/msql2d.pid either.
> Maybe someone else knows a better scheme?
>
Given it is dynamically generated by the program /var seems a
reasonable choice - particularly if sending a hup signal to it
is a useful facility (with respect to the 'hup' alias for root).
David/absolute
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