On 2019-02-12 Brian May <b...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 06:53:18PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: >>> I was planning a new upload during this week (the version in sid, will >>> not migrate as is due to a regression in dgit's autopkgtests), but can >>> postpone it a few days until you've uploaded exim.
>> Thanks for the offer, I have just uploaded a fix for exim, so it will >> not be necessary. > How did you fix the problem for exim? > I have a suspicion that amavisd-new drops privileges immediately (isn't > this considered good behaviour?) so cannot write the pid file as root. > As a result, I don't know how to fix #921016. Hello, You will need to limit the processes that s-s-d in considering for killing, otherwise the amasvis user could kill arbitrary processes by listing them in the pid file. For exim I am now passing --exec /path/to/daemon as argument to s-s-d https://salsa.debian.org/exim-team/exim4/commit/7d69adc64e5006ce1d033acbd51681dc8aa3640d Alternatively (or additionally) setting --user should also work. hth, cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
