From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 19 01:06:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA13363 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 01:06:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA13358 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 01:06:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id KAA15717 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 10:00:26 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id RAA00643; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 17:27:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970718172709.25620@gtn.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 17:27:09 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sendmail complains about being unable to write his pid file Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sendmail couldn't write his /var/run/sendmail.pid file. I saw this behaviour in FreeBSD 2.2.2 and -current. I think the newest sendmail version introduces this. It's important, that every directory is owned by root. FreeBSD's /var/run directory permissions are drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 512 Jul 18 17:20 run After changing the permissions to: drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 512 Jul 18 17:20 run everything is fine. So we should fix the installation and possibly the mtree files as well. Any takers ? Any other voices ??? Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html