From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 01:00:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2CA316A4CF for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:00:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from cirb503493.alcatel.com.au (c211-30-75-229.belrs2.nsw.optusnet.com.au [211.30.75.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6CCB43D3F for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:00:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from cirb503493.alcatel.com.au (localhost.alcatel.com.au [127.0.0.1])i0M90le3006889 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:00:47 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jeremyp@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au) Received: (from jeremyp@localhost) by cirb503493.alcatel.com.au (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id i0M90lAH006888 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:00:47 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jeremyp) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:00:47 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040122090046.GH908@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: MFS question - FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:00:52 -0000 On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:53:25AM +0000, Rob MacGregor wrote: >I'm trying to use a RAM disk for running some software's temporary spool >(MIMEDefang) out of. The aim is to boost the performance by removing the >need for disk writes for temporary files. Note that softupdates will not perform any physical writes for short- lived (say less than 30 seconds) files. >Is there any way to achieve this? Because it defaults to 1777 for the >permissions Sendmail is complaining (rightly) on startup about a world >writable directory. All I can suggest is patching rc.d/sendmail to fix the permissions before starting sendmail. If you don't want to patch this script, you could create another rc.d script that has something like "REQUIRE: mountall" and "BEFORE: sendmail". > Please DO NOT send me ANY email directly unless it's a privacy issue. > Reply-to mangled to assist those who don't read the above. If you want responses sent to the mailing list, you should set the Reply-To header to point to the mailing list rather than a random address. Peter