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Re: [tpop3d-discuss] pidfile
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Chris Elsworth |
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Re: [tpop3d-discuss] pidfile |
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Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:48:32 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:21:13AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 10:25:51AM +0100, Chris Elsworth wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 10:23:14AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> >
> > > > Would it be possible to get a configure option to write a pidfile,
> > > > specifying the location on the configure arg? FreeBSD stores them in
> > > > /var/run, so I'd be setting it to that for this port.
> > >
> > > Errm. What's wrong with tpop3d -p /var/run/tpop3d.pid ?
> >
> > So I didn't spot that :)
> >
> > > Or is your complaint that it doesn't write one by
> > > default? In this case, I think that a tpop3d.conf
> > > directive would be a more sensible option.
> >
> > Yes, true - I just saw it hard coded in as NULL and didn't think to check
> > anywhere else. A configure directive would be nice, as well as the
> > commandline option.
> >
> > However the commandline option will be just fine for the port :)
> >
> > You don't have any objections to me having a go at this, as it happens, do
> > you? Or anything to contribute? :)
>
> No objection at all. I don't have much experience with
> FreeBSD so I don't know how helpful any advice is likely
> to be, but you are welcome to ask, anyway. I think some
> others on the list are FreeBSD users, so they may be
> helpful also.
Here's what I've done so far.
http://www.shagged.org/~chris/tpop3d-port/
It half works :)
I'm going to get it installing properly next, so the files are owned by
the right person etc.
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