From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Mar 23 15:22:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA07591 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 15:22:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA07586 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 15:22:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA11207 for freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:21:57 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA20155; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:08:00 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970324000800.WG00772@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:08:00 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail can't create PID file because of owner permission of /var/run References: <19970323153519.BW27841@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199703231520.XAA05026@spinner.DIALix.COM> <19970323215250.35827@keltia.freenix.fr> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19970323215250.35827@keltia.freenix.fr>; from Ollivier Robert on Mar 23, 1997 21:52:50 +0100 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Ollivier Robert wrote: (System directories owned by root.) > Some people (including me) have been asking for this change for *years*. > Please someone do it ! Some other people (including me) still believe that tweaking all systems just because some people suffer from NFS's flaws is not doing better either. Those who suffer from NFS know how to use chown -R... NFS-exporting something writable to any machine you can't trust gets you what you deserve. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)