Re: Why spamass-milter is not a well-behaved daemon?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Oct 17), Michail Vidiassov said:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Oct 16), Michail Vidiassov said:
> > > is there any reason for spamass-milter, given -f switch, just forking
> > > and not doing what the other daemons do - detach from terminal,
> > > redirect output to nul, etc?
> >
> > No particular reason.  I'll add a call to daemon() to make it do the
> > right thing.
> >
> Nice, but
> good daemons do create /var/run/daemon-name.pid file also ;).

I'll also add a commandline flag to specify a pidfile location.

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        Dan Nelson
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