On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:53:08PM +0900, Payton Swick wrote:
> Well, I did it myself anyway. Hope it's useful:
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/pidify/
 
Instead of putting this logic in (every) application, have you considered
using daemontools?  http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html 

Personally, I think pid files are evil.

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Jos Backus
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