* Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-23 12:56]: > This reminds me, is there a deliberate reason for forcing the control > socket to be unlinked (at least ospfd and bgpd, probably others) rather > than just refusing to run if it already exists? Admittedly it's not a > mistake many people will be making twice...
that would be kind of a DoS. if the daemon terminates unexpectedly for some reason (as in, doesn't get to clean up) the socket will stay there. and, kaboom, cannot start it. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
