> > - system.c: do not chdir("/") in ss_daemon_init()- it prevents us from ever
> >   getting core dumps from midas daemons.
> 
> The chdir("/") is from one of the unix text books. They say you HAVE to do it. If you start a
> daemon on an NFS file system, you cannot unmount that file system as long as the daemon is
> running.

Right, I remember this NFS problem from a while back.

This problem does not exist in the current crop of Linux systems (since Red Hat 7.3 at least) - they
either kill off all user programs or use "umount -f" and "umount -l".

"umount -l" works in any case to unmount a "busy" filesystem.

For systems where the NFS problem does still exist, one should do this: "mlogger -D" becomes "(cd /; mlogger -D)".

So I suspect that the "cd /" advice from the unix programming book is no longer as necessary
as it used to be. (Perhaps a better advice would have been to "cd /tmp", so we could still get
core dumps from non-root daemons).

K.O.