Yeah, I understand that but since we are trying to go for user friendliness I think we might want to go for a default that doesn't involve using sudo. I don't want people to have to deal with pid files and log files who might not understand exactly why they need to. I would suggest maybe using /tmp or maybe a ~/.gorthaur . /tmp might be the easiest but I was thinking we might want a ~/.gorthaur later anyway to store some state.