An unfortunate confluence of interfaces

[Russell Nelson]

1) I'm working on a program to accept emailed updates of zone files
via qmail.

2) tinydns owns its home directory (/etc/tinydns), so it should be no
problem to send mail to tinydns.

3) The tinydns home directory is also used as the service directory,
linked to from /service.  The tinydns log files are owned by a user
named tinylog.

Anybody see why these three facts put together don't work?  I'll give
you a screenful to think about it.

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Okay, here's the answer: tinydns uses a log file.  Svscan notices that
a service directory needs a log started up because the service
directory has the sticky bit set.  This is also tinydns's home
directory.  Qmail refuses to deliver mail to users whose home
directory has the sticky bit set.  So tinydns can't receive mail.

Oops.  I'm sure there's a way out of this, but it's disappointing that
the simplest possible way to hook these programs together does not
work.

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