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 > pollyw >-- pollyw >Andrew pollyw > pollyw > pollyw >-- pollyw >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null pollyw > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 3:11pm up 176 days, 3:26, 1 user, load average: 1.06, 1.03, 1.00