Re: xfstt 0.9.99 uploaded - some news with it

1999-05-23 Thread Greg Stark
[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

Re: xfstt 0.9.99 uploaded - some news with it

1999-05-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 10:24:17PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: 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 ? No, that creates

Re: xfstt 0.9.99 uploaded - some news with it

1999-05-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 23, Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /var/run/xfstt like other similar programs do. Couldn't we just set the sticky bit on /var/run ? We don't need another world writeable directory in /var. -- ciao, Marco