Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 14:52:38 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Claus Assmann <freebsd+stable@esmtp.org>, "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: non-root /var/run files (was Re: Sendmail, smmsp, and pid file) Message-ID: <200205272152.g4RLqcr1001386@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> of "Mon, 27 May 2002 12:24:56 MDT." <200205271824.g4RIOutI008910@orthanc.ab.ca>
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In message <200205271824.g4RIOutI008910@orthanc.ab.ca>, Lyndon
Nerenberg writes
:
> [Redirecting to the hackers list -- please respect the reply-to header]
>
> >>>>> "Claus" == Claus Assmann <freebsd+stable@esmtp.org> writes:
>
> Claus> On Mon, May 27, 2002, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> >> Any particular reason why the sendmail with 4.6-RC is writing sm-
> >> client.pid into /var/spool/clientmqueue instead of /var/run?
>
> Claus> Permissions.
>
> This points out a short-fall in the /var/run scheme: it can only be used
> by processes running with an euid of 0 at the time they create the file.
>
> If we have a /var/run/sendmail directory owned by the smmsp user then
> sendmail can create its pid files there. Likewise for bind. The purgedir
> function in /etc/rc (used to clean /var/run) will preserve the existing
> directory structure under /var/run, so the sub-directory tree will
> survive reboots.
Maybe not for named because you're better off using the -t option.
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