[Opendnssec-user] Deprecating pid-files?

Andy Holdaway andyh at nominet.org.uk
Tue Aug 24 15:00:34 UTC 2010


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



More information about the Opendnssec-user mailing list