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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Port/package of WorkMan-1.3 now available!
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * No program should run with the identity of `bin'.

Ok, suid-root then.

What's the policy for programs updating /var/run/*.pid, by the way?
Is it reasonable to have a port suid-root so that it can write there?

Satoshi