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

From: Andreas_Hallmann <hallmann@ahatec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/35534: /etc/rc.d/amd does not set /var/run/amd.pid
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:47:42 +0100

 On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:35:02PM +0000, Andreas_Hallmann wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR misc/35534; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Andreas_Hallmann <hallmann@ahatec.de>
 > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: misc/35534: /etc/rc.d/amd does not set /var/run/amd.pid
 > Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 15:33:36 +0100
 > 
 >  On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:22:15PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
 >  > 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?
 >  > 
 >  hallmann@wawa 15:30:24 ~
 >  501: ls -l /var/run/amd.pid
 >  -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Jan 20 17:33 /var/run/amd.pid
 >  > What does `ps ax | grep amd` show?
 >  > 
 >  hallmann@wawa 15:30:49 ~
 >  502: ps -ax | grep amd
 >    239 ?     Is     1:05.10 /usr/sbin/amd -F /etc/amd/master -x all -p -a /amd -F /etc/amd.conf 
 >   4698 ttypd R+     0:00.02 grep amd 
 >  
 
 Modified my rc.conf such that I now have 
 
 502: ps -ax | grep amd
 	239 ?     Is     1:05.10 /usr/sbin/amd -x all -p -a /amd -F /etc/amd.conf 
 
 But still no PID.
 
 You can reproduce it, what release are you using? 
 If I remember right, this showed up, after upgrading to 3.0 and still remains in 3.1
 
 >  > --mjf
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