Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:21:40 -0600 From: Brad Guillory <round@baileylink.net> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nonpriveleged daemons and pid files Message-ID: <20000217122140.D11118@baileylink.net> In-Reply-To: <00021720524101.23691@newbee.web2000.ru>; from novikov@webclub.ru on Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 08:47:26PM %2B0300 References: <00021720524101.23691@newbee.web2000.ru>
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Write a startup script for the application that "touch"es the pid file then "chown"s it to the appriopriate user. Or make a daemon group and put all the daemons in it, then chgrp the /var/run directory to daemon group and chmod it to 775. (Sorry neither are tested.) BMG On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 08:47:26PM +0300, Andrey Novikov wrote: > Hello, > > now more and more daemons can be run from non-priveleged > account - BIND, MTAs, DBMS'es and so on, but it > sometimes leads to two minor problems - either this daemon > can't create pid file in /var/run or it can't update it on > restart. What is the common way to overcome that problem - > it's very convinient to store them in one place. > > Andrey Novikov > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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