config help & pid file not existing issue

[Parke]

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 3:50 AM David Penn <px920906 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for replying. I mkdir it, kill tinc and restart, nothing in config changed, and it works!
> I don't know what's behind but I should've try system "kill" rather than tinc's stop/restart stuff...

Tinc's stop/restart "stuff" depends on being able to write (and read)
the PID of tinc to the directory that did not exist.  That's why
stop/restart did not work when the directory did not exist.

-Parke