Re: Unix Domain Sockets

["Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi -

On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 04:28:08PM -0400, Dave Brolley wrote:
> We would then need a separate socket in the file system for each. i.e. 
> /var/run/pcp/pmcd.<pid>.socket. 

Or some other user-specified name.

> Is it even possible to run multiple separate pmcds? There is only
> one /var/run/pcp/pmcd.pid afaikt.

/var/run defaults are for distro-managed pmcd.  A user that wishes to
run his own pmcd for some reason would have to override all the
defaults, including that pmcd.pid file, to avoid conflicts.

- FChE