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

[Michail Vidiassov]

Dear Dan,

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 ;).

                       Sincerely, Michail