pid-file

This stanza entry specifies the location and name of the PID file.

pid-file = fully_qualified_path

Location and name of the PID file.

Options

fully_qualified_path

Represents an alphanumeric string. String values are expected to be characters that are part of the local code set. The set of valid characters in a file name can be determined by the file system and by the local code set. For Windows operating systems, file names cannot have a backward slash (\), a colon (:), a question mark (?), or double quotation marks ("). For AIX, Linux, and Solaris operating systems, path names and file names are case-sensitive.

Usage

Required

Default value

The following table shows the default value by platform.

Platform	File name
Linux or UNIX	/var/PolicyDirector/log/ivacld.pid
Windows	c:\progra files\tivoli\policy director\log\ivacld.pid

Example

Example for a Windows operating system:

pid-file = C:\pd\log\ivacld.pid

Parent topic: [ivacld] stanza