PID file

[Andrew Stribblehill]

Quoting Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org>:
> 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"?
> 
> There is now a --with-pid-dir option.

Marvellous. Is it possible to change the manpage for sshd.8 to
reflect this, in the same way that /etc is remapped? I would
submit a patch but it appears that fixpaths relies on the variable
being defined in the Makefile and it's not my place to make such a
change!

Thanks,

Andrew Stribblehill
Systems Programmer, IT Service, University of Durham, England