Re: pid question

[aphro <nate@firetrail.com>]

start it as root, or chown it to some group (say daemon) and start sockd
as group daemon, and chmod g+w /var/run

nate

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Pollywog wrote:

pollyw >How do I allow an app to write a pid to /var/run ?
pollyw >
pollyw >Feb 11 19:50:24 sockd[13079]: userid.libwrap: 0
pollyw >Feb 11 19:50:24 sockd[13079]: method(s): 
pollyw >Feb 11 19:50:24 sockd[13079]: open(/var/run/sockd.pid): Permission denied
pollyw >(errno = 13)
pollyw >
pollyw >Do I need to allow it to start as root in order to do this?
pollyw >
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pollyw >Andrew
pollyw >
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