From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 28 01:26:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA16037 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 01:26:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [146.254.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA16023 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 01:26:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from salomon.mchp.siemens.de (salomon.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.8.0/8.8.0) with ESMTP id KAA10708 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:23:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.zfe.siemens.de (root@curry.zfe.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.2/8.8.0) with ESMTP id KAA26948 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:26:41 +0100 (MET) Received: from server.us.tld (server.us.tld [192.168.16.33]) by curry.zfe.siemens.de (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id KAA21373 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:26:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from printfix.us.tld (printfix.us.tld [192.168.21.31]) by server.us.tld (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id KAA20966 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:26:40 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andre@localhost) by printfix.us.tld (8.8.3/8.8.2) id KAA06588 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:26:40 +0100 (MET) From: Andre Albsmeier Message-Id: <199611280926.KAA06588@printfix.us.tld> Subject: rwhod can't create files To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:26:40 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi *, there is an interesting problem with 2.1.6.1: After upgrading from 2.1.5 to 2.1.6.1 the rwhod doesn't work anymore. Or, to be more precisely, it can't create new files. The permissions of /var/rwho are (as set by make world): drwxrwxr-x 2 bin daemon 512 Nov 28 07:49 rwho/ the files are deleted and when I start rwhod, I get: Nov 28 09:12:35 4D:linkfix rwhod[5729]: whod.linkfix: Permission denied When I change it to: drwxrwxr-x 2 daemon daemon 512 Nov 28 09:14 rwho/ it works. I have looked into rwhod.c and found that rwhod switches to user daemon and group daemon so both /var/rwho should work... Any ideas ? Thanks Andre