On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 11:51:17AM -0600, Wenchi Liao wrote:
> Forward this as necessary...I'm still not sure what netbsd-users
> is for, and it isn't i386 specific or anything like that....
> 
> Anyways, there is /var/run where pid files are kept.
> Historically, aren't pid files supposed to go into
> /var/spool/lock? What goes in one, and what goes in the other?

/var/spool/lock is used for uucp-style locking, for exclusive access to
serial devices.

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