[Opendnssec-user] Deprecating pid-files?

[Andy Holdaway]

On 24/08/10 13:48, Jakob Schlyter wrote:
> hi,
>
> We're considering deprecating (i.e. no longer create) pid-files for the signer engine and the enforcer. Stopping the signer engine is already done using 'ods-signer stop' (which communicates with ods-signerd using a socket), and the plan is to implement the same type of command-and-control interface for the enforcer.
>
> Can anyone find a good reason to keep the pid-files around? If one is lucky, the pid-file contains the pid of the current running process. If one is (very) unlucky, the pid-file contains the pid of something completely different...
>
>    
+1 for keeping them.  It's up to the init scripts to ensure that old pid 
files are removed properly.  They are standard on most linux distros.

Andy