PID file

Ben Taylor bent at clark.net
Wed Jan 12 05:19:33 EST 2000


On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Willard Dawson wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:01:23PM -0500, Ben Taylor wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> There is no such directory in my Solaris 7 environment.

Yep.  I was looking at my Solaris 8 box.

Ben







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