The following reply was made to PR misc/35534; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matt Fleming <mjf@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: misc-bug-people@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org, hallmann@ahatec.de
Subject: Re: misc/35534: /etc/rc.d/amd does not set /var/run/amd.pid
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 12:22:15 +0000

 On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:10:03PM +0000, Andreas_Hallmann wrote:
 >  # grep command_args /etc/rc.d/amd 
 >  command_args='-p -a '$amd_dir' -F /etc/amd.conf >/var/run/amd.pid'
 >  
 
 This looks correct to me.
 
 >  >  
 >  >  # grep amd /etc/rc.conf 
 >  >  amd=YES amd_flags="-F /etc/amd/master -l syslog:LOG_DAEMON" amd_dir=/amd
 >  >  amd=YES amd_flags="-F /etc/amd/master -x all" amd_dir=/amd
 
 I added both of these lines and still can't reproduce your problem. Are
 the permissions correct for /var/run/amd.pid?
 
 What does `ps ax | grep amd` show?
 
 --mjf