Make sure you're using a version of daemontools greater than 0.53. In
daemontools 0.53, what's later known as setuidgid is called setuser.
Upgrade to the latest daemontools, daemontools-0.70 for best results.
Patrick
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Dave Sill wrote:
> Aled Treharne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Ok, I've been following the steps in LWQ word by word and editing where
> >necessary for my system (uname -a: FreeBSD marilyn.cmgww.com 3.4-RELEASE
> >FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #1: Fri Feb 18 17:54:53 EST 2000
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/MARILYN i386).
> >
> >My problem is when I run 'qmail start'. I get a message from multilog :
> >Fatal error : cannot change to current directory : access denied
> >
> >This goes to stderr. I've changed the permissions on /var/log/qmail and
> >below to a+rwx temporarily and that doesn't help. I've noticed that I don't
> >have setuidgid on my system. Is there a way I can work around this, or
> >somehow get it working? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> If you followed LWQ carefully, you installed daemontools, which
> contains setuidgid. Why would want to work around this? None of the
> LWQ qmail startup stuff will work without daemontools.
>
> -Dave
>
