In article <Pine.SGI.3.96.980418102730.3686U-100000@irony.anim.dreamworks.com> you write:
> > > 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).

I agree. I'd like all PID files in /var/run. The socket can go there too.

Location of database files should be settable from /etc/mk.conf while
building the package.