Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 08:39:33 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Claus Assmann <freebsd+stable@esmtp.org> Subject: Re: Sendmail, smmsp, and pid file Message-ID: <20020527153932631.AAA450@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <20020527081026.B29438@zardoc.esmtp.org> References: <20020527104323228.AAA458@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>; from pjklist@ekahuna.com on Mon, May 27, 2002 at 03:43:23AM -0700
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On 27 May 2002, at 8:10, Claus Assmann boldly uttered: > 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). Thanks for the clarifications Claus. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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