Re: Bug#2836: wrong pidfile for sysklogd

[Christian Hudon <chrish@libertel.montreal.qc.ca>]

On Mon, 13 May 1996, David Engel wrote:

> > This bug is caused because of an incorrect <paths.h> include
> > file. Syslogd takes care of its contents. The file says:
> >
> >     #define _PATH_LOGCONF   __PATH_ETC_INET"/syslog.conf"
> >     #if 0
> >     #define _PATH_LOGPID    __PATH_ETC_INET"/syslog.pid"
> >     #else
> >     #define _PATH_LOGPID    "/var/run/syslog.pid"
> >     #endif
> >
> > I will change this in the syslogd source and reassign this bug to the
> > package libc5-dev.
> 
> What's wrong with /var/run/syslog.pid?

1. The FSSTND says /var/run/name_of_daemon.pid

2. The /etc/init.d/sysklogd script expects /var/run/syslogd.pid

  Christian