Ian Pallfreeman asks
>
> I need the pid of the exim daemon for various scripts and admin tasks. Does
> it write it anywhere?
>
> If not, can we have a configurable /my/path/exim.pid file (defaulting to,
> perhaps, /var/run?) in the next version, please, Philip?
That's really, really, an RTFM question! Try
$ grep -nw pid spec.txt
1175: ps -e -o pid,comm
1251: runners is written to a file called exim-daemon.pid in Exim's spool
1253: name is exim-daemon.<port-number>.pid. If a daemon is run with only
1258: It is possible to change the directory in which these pid files are
1361: names of the directories where log files and daemon pid files are
1364: log, and pid files are written directly into the spool directory.
1763: daemon.<number>.pid in Exim's spool directory.
1804: daemon is written to a file called exim-daemon.pid in Exim's spool
1806: file is called exim-daemon.<port-number>.pid. The location of the
1807: pid file can be changed by defining PID_FILE_PATH in Local/Makefile.
1809: it is added to the pid file name.
9088:called exim-daemon.pid. If it is doing only one of these things, the option
and work from there! The facilities you want are all available.
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1@???
