In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lyndon
Nerenberg writes
:
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> >>>>> "Claus" == Claus Assmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Claus> 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?
>
> Claus> Permissions.
>
> This points out a short-fall in the /var/run scheme: it can only be used
> by processes running with an euid of 0 at the time they create the file.
>
> If we have a /var/run/sendmail directory owned by the smmsp user then
> sendmail can create its pid files there. Likewise for bind. The purgedir
> function in /etc/rc (used to clean /var/run) will preserve the existing
> directory structure under /var/run, so the sub-directory tree will
> survive reboots.
Maybe not for named because you're better off using the -t option.
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