In message <20000707165509.B9859@mailhub.psn.ie>, Andy Doran writes:
>> Yes, the pidfile might be overwritten.
>
>What PID file? The one I just introduced to stop log files getting mangled?

"Oops." Sorry, I was less than rigourous reading the diff. Please ignore
that comment.

>> But it's not normal for our daemons to prevent you from running multiple
>> copies unless they require a lock on a resource, and that's not the case
>> here.
>
>newsyslog(8) is not a daemon by any stretch of the imagination.

True. But it's run repeatedly in an automated fashion (usually from cron).

>> Can you please justify this a bit better? I think many of these recent
>> newsyslog changes should have had discussion on tech-userlevel first. This
>> would save you from having to back them out.
>
>By all means, feel free to back out the whole shebang. :).

Well, I was hoping you would justfy it so we wouldn't have to back it out ;-)

--jhawk