From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 19 05:21:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA23072 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 05:21:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA23062 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 05:21:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id OAA21158 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 14:15:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id NAA02691; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 13:28:38 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970719132838.54020@gtn.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 13:28:38 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Andreas Klemm Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail complains about being unable to write his pid file References: <19970718172709.25620@gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <19970718172709.25620@gtn.com>; from Andreas Klemm on Fri, Jul 18, 1997 at 05:27:09PM +0200 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Jul 18, 1997 at 05:27:09PM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote: > Sendmail couldn't write his /var/run/sendmail.pid file. > I saw this behaviour in FreeBSD 2.2.2 and -current. > > I think the newest sendmail version introduces this. > It's important, that every directory is owned by root. Hmm, I re-changed /var/tmp to permissions bin.bin and couldn't reproduce the problem :-/ -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html