On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 04:08:42PM -0800, After 5 PM please slip brain through slot in door. wrote:
>  * 
>  * And no, for me at least, /var/run/*.pid is not a solution, I get rid of
>  * the annoyig ".pid" parts of the file names as well (it makes a listing
>  * of /var/run give a nice list of daemons that are running, or should be).
> 
> Yes, but then you get fooled by things like dev.db, ld.so.hints and utmp.
> 
> The *.pid is nice so you know it's a PID and not something else.

That was his point. He wants ONLY pids in there, and databases in other
directories.

	-is