From owner-cvs-all Mon Dec 11 3:25: 5 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 03:24:57 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F037637B6CB; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 03:24:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F126E3034; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 02:24:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBB6qcH18415; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 06:52:39 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBB6tQG42641; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 06:55:26 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200012110655.eBB6tQG42641@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Robert Watson Cc: Brian Somers , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , "David E. O'Brien" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab In-Reply-To: Message from Robert Watson of "Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:36:34 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 06:55:26 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Brian Somers wrote: > > > I chose /var/run because it's only writable by root. > > But readable by the world. > > robert@alsvid:/data/fbsd-commit/src/lib/libposix1e> id > uid=1000(robert) gid=1000(robert) groups=1000(robert), 0(wheel), > 5(operator), 68(dialer) > robert@alsvid:/data/fbsd-commit/src/lib/libposix1e> lockf /var/run echo hi > hi > robert@alsvid:/data/fbsd-commit/src/lib/libposix1e> lockf /var/run sleep 1000000 And does ``lockf /var/run/periodic'' do the same thing ? > ... > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project > robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message