Can't get pidfile to work in rc script

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Fri Sep 21 14:21:52 UTC 2018


On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 20:57:09 -0700
Lee Brown wrote:

> I'm trying to get 2 separate sshd's running.  I've created
> /etc/rc.d/sshd_alternate but it always uses /var/run/sshd.pid and not
> /var/run/sshd_alternate.pid.  I tried
> 
> sshd_alternate_pidfile="${pidfile}"

Usually the pid file specified in an rc file is telling the script 
what the daemon is using. sshd  doesn't seem to have a direct way of
setting the pid file path, I think you would have to create an alternate
sshd_config and pass that as an argument to sshd.


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