Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 17 October 1999 at 15:43:35 -0700
> On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
> > > Check the permissions on /var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger. They should look like
> > > this:
> > >
> > > prw--w--w- 1 qmails qmail 0 Oct 16 17:39 trigger
>
> That was definitely the problem in my case. I'm not sure how it changed,
> though. If I find out, I promise you'll be the second one to know. :)
>
> I couldn't find any info on the trigger file. Can you explain how qmail is
> using this named pipe, and why it has to be world-writable?
I haven't examined this bit of source just recently, but very roughly,
qmail-inject uses this to alert the central q-management process that
there's new business waiting. Since qmail-inject runs as any user
sending mail, the trigger needs to be world-writable. I'm sure the
process on the other end of that pipe is *very* careful what it does
with whatever comes through it!
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