Re: [Sshguard-maintainers] [Sshguard-users] SSHGuard 1.6.3 release announcement

[Willem J. W. <wj...@di...>]

On 5-1-2016 00:00, Kevin Zheng wrote:
> On 01/04/2016 16:19, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
>> I did not have time to react to the release notes before, but I have to
>> concur with Mark that it is a pitty that this feature was removed.
>> Does not make FreeBSD life much easier.
>>
>> And I'm not sure that the PIDfile needs to be locked.
>> Why should it be?
>
> To prevent a second process from starting if one is already running. I
> believe daemon(8) accomplishes this using pidfile(3).
>
> Granted, the '-i' option is probably only used by init daemons, in which
> case the existence of the file is checked before anything is started, so
> this is really a non-issue.
>
> If this option makes things substantially easier, I can resurrect it.

I cannot speak for everybody, but it would allow for sshguard to get the
"standard" rc.d script treatment. Which is well known, and straight forward.
Going thru deamon just is a bit more convoluted and uses more resources.

So if it is not a great pain, I think it is appreciated.

--WjW