PID file

Ben Taylor bent at clark.net
Wed Jan 12 05:01:23 EST 2000


On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Andrew Stribblehill wrote:

> Where is the best place for me to change the PID file location? I
> _could_ change it in ssh.h but then I'd have to do this every
> time. Am I best to put in a -DPIDDIR="/etc" or something?
> Alternatively, would it be easy to change the configure.in stuff
> to let me do a --pid-dir="/etc" or a --pid-file="/etc/ssh.pid"?

Isn't /var/run on of those directories used for holding pid type files,
or is this not a standard yet?

Ben








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