From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 27 8:11:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zardoc.esmtp.org (adsl-63-195-85-27.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.85.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E26B37B407 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 08:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zardoc.esmtp.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zardoc.esmtp.org (8.12.4.Beta0/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4RFARj3018753 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 27 May 2002 08:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ca@localhost) by zardoc.esmtp.org (8.12.4.Beta0/8.12.3/Submit) id g4RFAQn1030457; Mon, 27 May 2002 08:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 08:10:26 -0700 From: Claus Assmann To: "Philip J. Koenig" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail, smmsp, and pid file Message-ID: <20020527081026.B29438@zardoc.esmtp.org> References: <20020527104323228.AAA458@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20020527104323228.AAA458@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>; from pjklist@ekahuna.com on Mon, May 27, 2002 at 03:43:23AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? Permissions. > Is this because it needs to be in a world-writable directory because > it's not run as root? /var/spool/clientmqueue is hopefully not "a world-writable directory". However, it is group-writable and sendmail is set-group-ID to that group (smmsp by default). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message