Re: [tpop3d-discuss] pidfile

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 10:25:51AM +0100, Chris Elsworth wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 10:23:14AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> 
> > > Would it be possible to get a configure option to write a pidfile, 
> > > specifying the location on the configure arg? FreeBSD stores them in 
> > > /var/run, so I'd be setting it to that for this port.
> > 
> > Errm. What's wrong with tpop3d -p /var/run/tpop3d.pid ?
> 
> So I didn't spot that :)
> 
> > Or is your complaint that it doesn't write one by
> > default? In this case, I think that a tpop3d.conf
> > directive would be a more sensible option.
> 
> Yes, true - I just saw it hard coded in as NULL and didn't think to check 
> anywhere else. A configure directive would be nice, as well as the 
> commandline option.
> 
> However the commandline option will be just fine for the port :)
> 
> You don't have any objections to me having a go at this, as it happens, do 
> you? Or anything to contribute? :)

No objection at all. I don't have much experience with
FreeBSD so I don't know how helpful any advice is likely
to be, but you are welcome to ask, anyway. I think some
others on the list are FreeBSD users, so they may be
helpful also.

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