>in that case I should modify the package to put the pid in /var/run?  

It should be put into the datadir.  /var/run is writeable only by root and
the mysql.server script supports starting the server by a non-root user.

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Christoph Badura					www.netbsd.org

	Anything that can be done in O(N) can be done in O(N^2).
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