Hi,

I need to run pound for more then one IP address with different
settings but I have problems with starting and stopping only needed
pound - i run multiple instance of pound with different
configuration files.

So I wrote patch which provide PidFile	"/path/to/pidfile" option.
Default is pound standard behaviour /var/run/pound.(pid) but you can
use different...

Please, get me know if I'm totally wrong and this is bad idea or if
it can help...

Regards
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Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2005 02:09 schrieben Sie:[...]

just an idea, how about (hard-)linking the binary to different names? then you 
could start "pound.a -f config_for_a", and could do "killall pound.a" or 
"pkill pound.b" or something like this for stopping it.

or, maybe even simpler, you could put your pounds under control of something 
like daemontools (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html).

cheers,

sascha

Wed, Feb 09, 2005 ve 12:21:47PM +0100, Sascha Ottolski napsal:[...]

Yes, I have hardlinks, but killall way seems not ok for me. It looks
uggly
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Ok, I'll try it. But do you think that PidFile option is bad? I
think that in generally program can allow to set this...
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Hello,
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in generally program can allow to set > this...

I find this change does make sense. I would like to see it included.
Does anyone see the advantage of having a PID file with unpredictable name?
Surely I don't.

Matthias