[ixpmanager] smokeping grief

Nick Hilliard nick at inex.ie
Sun Jan 19 21:18:17 GMT 2014


On 19/01/2014 19:40, Brian Thompson wrote:
> |;; The directory where SmokePing keeps its pid when daemonised. (mandatory)
> smokeping.conf.piddir = "/usr/local/var/smokeping"
[...]
> |It seems like every unix fork prefers a different location|

the /usr/local/var entry came from freebsd, but actually the normal place
on freebsd for PIDs is /var/run/<daemon>/.  Not sure why the freebsd
smokeping package maintainer didn't use /var/run.

Nick




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