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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 16:53:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: bin/4407: sendmail 8.8.7 can't write sendmail.pid
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I this is a safe_write problem.

Check the GID of /var/run

On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Matthew Hunt wrote:

> 
> >Number:         4407
> >Category:       bin
> >Synopsis:       sendmail 8.8.7 can't write sendmail.pid
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       non-critical
> >Priority:       medium
> >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
> >State:          open
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 28 10:20:00 PDT 1997
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Matthew Hunt
> >Organization:
> None
> >Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386
> >Environment:
> FreeBSD mph124.rh.psu.edu 2.2-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE #0: Wed Aug 20 11:06:06 EDT 1997     root@townhouse.dyn.ml.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/WOPR  i386
> 
> >Description:
> 
> sendmail 8.8.7 can't write /var/run/sendmail.pid.  If the file already
> exists, it can write to it.  But we clean /var/run at boot.
> 
> >How-To-Repeat:
> 
> Boot a recent 2.2-STABLE system and look at /var/log/messages.
> 
> >Fix:
> 
> The following patch to etc/rc.  I have not tested it by rebooting, but
> it is fairly trivial.
> 
> 
> --- rc.orig	Thu Aug 28 13:05:35 1997
> +++ rc	Thu Aug 28 13:07:03 1997
> @@ -231,7 +231,8 @@
>  fi
>  
>  if [ "X${sendmail_enable}" = X"YES" -a -r /etc/sendmail.cf ]; then
> -	echo -n ' sendmail';	/usr/sbin/sendmail ${sendmail_flags}
> +	echo -n ' sendmail';	/usr/bin/touch /var/run/sendmail.pid
> +	/usr/sbin/sendmail ${sendmail_flags}
>  fi
>  
>  echo '.'
> >Audit-Trail:
> >Unformatted:
> 

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