[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Apr 28, "Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The MAIN process runs as root. This is because if it recieves a kill signal > >it needs to clean up its pid file. Can't do that if it was not root (not > >without the permissions on /var/run changeing) > This is NOT an excuse for running as root. Make it create the pidfile in > /var/run/xfstt like other similar programs do.
Couldn't we just set the sticky bit on /var/run ? I guess this doesn't solve the problem for non-debian systems, hm.
