Re: xfstt 0.9.99 uploaded - some news with it

[Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>]

md@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes:

> On Apr 28, "Stephen J. Carpenter" <sjc@delphi.com> wrote:
> 
>  >The MAIN process runs as root. This is because if it recieves a kill signal
>  >it needs to clean up its pid file. Can't do that if it was not root (not
>  >without the permissions on /var/run changeing)
> This is NOT an excuse for running as root. Make it create the pidfile in
> /var/run/xfstt like other similar programs do.

Couldn't we just set the sticky bit on /var/run ?

I guess this doesn't solve the problem for non-debian systems, hm.