httpd.pid storage location

Scott Haneda talklists at newgeo.com
Thu Oct 8 23:38:25 PDT 2009


Nevermind, as I was looking into log rotation of all things, I find it  
nestled here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html#pidfile
Sorry for the noise.
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On Oct 8, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:

> This may be a strange question, but why is Apache2's pid file stored  
> in the logs directory of Apache2?  I am doing some basic background  
> on this, and some put it in var/run, in this case prefix first of  
> course, but I do not find any official suggestion on the layout.
>
> It does strike me as odd to store it in the logs folder, of all non  
> MP installs, I do spend some time in logs directories, and have  
> never met a pid on that side of town.



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