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From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com>
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Subject: Re: Sendmail, smmsp, and pid file
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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.



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Philip J. Koenig                                       pjklist@ekahuna.com
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