Re: non-root daemon and /var/run/daemon.pid

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] 20618.887730923@eeyore.ibcinc.com>,
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> wrote:
>In the mon package I want to run the daemon as user daemon since it
>doesn't need to be root, but this prevents it from creating its pid
>file in /var/run.  My current solution is to create the pid file in the
>/etc/init.d script and chown it to user daemon, but this is a little
>nasty in that the program can't unlink it when it exits.  I've worked
>around that by having the program truncate the file if it can't unlink
>it, but that's even nastier.
>
>Is there a better solution?

You could create a subdirectory in /var/run and use that. At startup
/var/run is cleaned up, but subdirectories are preserved.

Mike.
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