skyper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Leave the ownership of the trigger alone, and change the permissions to
> > rw--w--w- .
> 
> hu ? You mean allowing any local user to cat /dev/zero >trigger
> is the better idea ? Giving non-trusted processes write access
> to a pipe of a daemon (running with root-privilieges) is never
> a good idea tought.

That's the way it's designed.  The author put a lot of thought into this,
and there has never been a security hole in qmail.  Look at the code
yourself; it's safe.

> It works fine here with qmailq.qmail/640...(or at least qmail seems to
> work as expected :>)

Except that you might see 25-minute delays on processing mail.

Charles
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