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Date:      Mon, 27 May 2002 08:39:33 -0700
From:      "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Claus Assmann <freebsd+stable@esmtp.org>
Subject:   Re: Sendmail, smmsp, and pid file
Message-ID:  <20020527153932631.AAA450@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020527081026.B29438@zardoc.esmtp.org>
References:  <20020527104323228.AAA458@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>; from pjklist@ekahuna.com on Mon, May 27, 2002 at 03:43:23AM -0700

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On 27 May 2002, at 8:10, Claus Assmann boldly uttered: 

> 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).


Thanks for the clarifications Claus.



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Philip J. Koenig                                       pjklist@ekahuna.com
Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium


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