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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Communications Server
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 22, 2022

RELATED IDEAS

Make location of pids for communications server daemons configurable

Serveral of the CS daemon pids (e.g. /etc/syslog.pid, /tmp/pagent.pid) are
written to directories /etc or /tmp and the location can't be changed. 

We think /etc is a configuration directory and no daemon should write to it. 

To /tmp everybody has write access and some housekeeping
routines remove old files. So also there we think isn't a good place 
for pid files.  

We suggest that there should be variables to configure the location of the
pid files (e.g. see DMD_PIDFILE environment variable for pid of DMD). 
 

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 30, 2023

    It would also be a good idea to make /tmp/unix.str configurable.

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