Subj : Re: Synchronet for FreeBS
To   : Christine
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Aug 10 2005 04:25 pm

  Re: Re: Synchronet for FreeBS
  By: Christine to alt.bbs.synchronet on Wed Aug 10 2005 04:31 pm

 > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
 > 
 > Thank you for that bit of information... and for not smacking me for
 > not having checked for it before going through all this hassle. (grins)
 > 
 > Is there a way to specify in a config file where to put the sbbs.pid,
 > or would I just change it in the source code and recompile?
 > 
 > I run Synchronet without it ever being root, so that file was never
 > created (I did look in /var/run and such, just was being too blonde to
 > grep the source code)... I did a workaround and it works fine now, just
 > trying to figure out the best way to document the $SYNCHPIDF thing for
 > people like me who are entirely too paranoid for our own good :)

The PID filename is currently hard-coded in sbbscon.c:
#define SBBS_PID_FILE   "/var/run/sbbs.pid"

This should probably be configurable, but I'm not sure why you'd need/want to
change it.

                                                  digital man

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