From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Oct 13 12: 0:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EEEE37B405 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f9DJ07j91612; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:00:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200110131900.f9DJ07j91612@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: "Crist J. Clark" Subject: Re: bin/29966: cleanup of ppp server socket on unclean startup Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark" Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/29966; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Brian Somers Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/29966: cleanup of ppp server socket on unclean startup Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 11:57:38 -0700 On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:17:18PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > Finally got to this. I'll commit these soon. Any place else anyone can > > see 'set server' in the ppp(8) examples or documentation? > > > > Index: src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist > > =================================================================== > > RCS file: /export/ncvs/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist,v > > retrieving revision 1.50 > > diff -u -r1.50 BSD.var.dist > > --- src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist 2001/10/01 08:54:16 1.50 > > +++ src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist 2001/10/13 04:53:25 > > @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ > > run > > named uname=bind gname=bind > > .. > > + ppp gname=network mode=0775 > > .. > > rwho gname=daemon mode=0775 > > .. > [.....] > > I suggested this a very long time ago and it was rejected on the > grounds that it's not necessary to create a ``standard'' hierarchy > under /var/run as ppp is generally run at most once or twice on a > given machine. > > I believe putting these sockets in /var/run is perfectly fine and the > patch should not be applied. The reason for the directory is to give write permission to the group 'network.' ppp(8) is not always run by root. This is the same reason there is a 'named' directory in there. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message