From 0e87ba32bb6dc6597ff89b96afcf2814c75b6c6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Radim Kolar <hsn@sendmail.cz>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 21:18:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] do not fail hard if pid file is not writeable in inetd mode

---
 ChangeLog     | 2 ++
 server/main.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index df0b6ab..0061024 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 Version NEXT
 	display port number if we can't listen on it
 	minor whitespace cleanup
+	do not fail hard if we can't write to pid file and running from
+	  inetd
 
 Version 2.8.1b29 - 24 Aug 2019
         added scons command line argument without-fspscan=yes for building
diff --git a/server/main.c b/server/main.c
index 1d398dc..1b5592d 100644
--- a/server/main.c
+++ b/server/main.c
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ int main (int argc, char ** argv)
         new pid to it after we setuid()+fork()
   */
 #ifndef LAMERPACK  
-  if (pidfile(pidlogname)) {
+  if (! inetd_mode && pidfile(pidlogname)) {
 	  fprintf(stderr,"Error: can not write pidfile %s - exiting.\n",pidlogname);
 	  exit(8);/* cannot write pid file - exit */
   }