Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 14:00:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/4407: sendmail 8.8.7 can't write sendmail.pid Message-ID: <199708282100.OAA20508@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/4407; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, GNATS Management <gnats@FreeBSD.ORG>,
freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/4407: sendmail 8.8.7 can't write sendmail.pid
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 16:53:55 -0400 (EDT)
I this is a safe_write problem.
Check the GID of /var/run
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Matthew Hunt wrote:
>
> >Number: 4407
> >Category: bin
> >Synopsis: sendmail 8.8.7 can't write sendmail.pid
> >Confidential: no
> >Severity: non-critical
> >Priority: medium
> >Responsible: freebsd-bugs
> >State: open
> >Class: sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id: current-users
> >Arrival-Date: Thu Aug 28 10:20:00 PDT 1997
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator: Matthew Hunt
> >Organization:
> None
> >Release: FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386
> >Environment:
> FreeBSD mph124.rh.psu.edu 2.2-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE #0: Wed Aug 20 11:06:06 EDT 1997 root@townhouse.dyn.ml.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/WOPR i386
>
> >Description:
>
> sendmail 8.8.7 can't write /var/run/sendmail.pid. If the file already
> exists, it can write to it. But we clean /var/run at boot.
>
> >How-To-Repeat:
>
> Boot a recent 2.2-STABLE system and look at /var/log/messages.
>
> >Fix:
>
> The following patch to etc/rc. I have not tested it by rebooting, but
> it is fairly trivial.
>
>
> --- rc.orig Thu Aug 28 13:05:35 1997
> +++ rc Thu Aug 28 13:07:03 1997
> @@ -231,7 +231,8 @@
> fi
>
> if [ "X${sendmail_enable}" = X"YES" -a -r /etc/sendmail.cf ]; then
> - echo -n ' sendmail'; /usr/sbin/sendmail ${sendmail_flags}
> + echo -n ' sendmail'; /usr/bin/touch /var/run/sendmail.pid
> + /usr/sbin/sendmail ${sendmail_flags}
> fi
>
> echo '.'
> >Audit-Trail:
> >Unformatted:
>
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