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Date:      Mon, 27 May 2002 08:10:26 -0700
From:      Claus Assmann <freebsd+stable@esmtp.org>
To:        "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sendmail, smmsp, and pid file
Message-ID:  <20020527081026.B29438@zardoc.esmtp.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020527104323228.AAA458@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>; from pjklist@ekahuna.com on Mon, May 27, 2002 at 03:43:23AM -0700
References:  <20020527104323228.AAA458@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>

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On Mon, May 27, 2002, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> Any particular reason why the sendmail with 4.6-RC is writing sm-
> client.pid into /var/spool/clientmqueue instead of /var/run?

Permissions.

> Is this because it needs to be in a world-writable directory because 
> it's not run as root?

/var/spool/clientmqueue is hopefully not "a world-writable directory".
However, it is group-writable and sendmail is set-group-ID to that
group (smmsp by default).

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