svn commit: r230869 - head/usr.sbin/daemon
Guy Helmer
ghelmer at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 1 16:41:00 UTC 2012
Author: ghelmer
Date: Wed Feb 1 16:40:59 2012
New Revision: 230869
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/230869
Log:
Change the notes about the pidfile to include Doug's preference
for pre-creating the pidfile with appropriate owner and permissions.
Requested by dougb
Modified:
head/usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.8
Modified: head/usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.8
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.8 Wed Feb 1 15:57:49 2012 (r230868)
+++ head/usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.8 Wed Feb 1 16:40:59 2012 (r230869)
@@ -61,8 +61,9 @@ using the
functionality.
If the
.Fl u
-option is used, the directory to contain the pidfile must be writable
-by the specified user.
+option is used, either the pidfile needs to have been pre-created
+with appropriate ownership and permissions, or the directory to contain
+the pidfile must be writable by the specified user.
Note, that the file will be created shortly before the process is
actually executed, and will remain after the process exits (although
it will be removed if the execution fails).
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