Hi folks,
I have to run several pflogd in parallel. To make pkill (i.e.
newsyslog) work it seems to be necessary to create hard links
pflogd1, pflogd2 etc., pointing to /sbin/pflogd. Soft links
don't work, because they don't show up in the process table.
This introduces new problems on the next upgrade of pflogd.
Its unreliable and error-prone. (I lost 2 weeks of logfiles
due to this.)
Would it be possible for pflogd to support a command line
option -p /var/run/mypflogdinstance.pid, as common for other
daemons? Without "-p" no pid file has to be written, as it is
now.
I know this flag was present in ancient OpenBSD versions,
but I never understood why such a reliable feature had
been dropped in advance of the undependable pkill.
Thanx in advance
Harri
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