Storing pid file for a daemon run as user

Question

Is there a preferred place to store a pid file for a daemon that\'s run as a user? /var/run is the standard place, but this is for a user daemon so it doesn\'t have write pr

Answer 1

The XDG Basedir specification defines where you should store these.
The variable $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR defines it's location, although it has no default.
The most common fallback (if the variable is unset) is /tmp/service-$USER.id.

This helps keep uncluttered homedirs, while keeping all runtime data in