On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:39:56PM -0400, Mark Mentovai wrote:
> Adam McKenna wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:50:52PM -0400, Mark Mentovai wrote:
> >> >I don't know about the correctness of that line, but before adding it in you
> >> >would also want to add "setuidgid qmaill" before it.
> >>
> >> Not true. qmail-start starts the logger as the log user (qmaill),
> >> eliminating the need for setuidgid (or setuser).
> >
> >Are you sure about that? It doesn't say so in the man page.
>
> Positive. The manpage doesn't say so explicitly (which is a surprise,
> considering the nature of most of the manpages supplied with qmail), but the
> source code does. Guess which wins?
>
> (In case the answer isn't obvious, I don't run setuidgid at all to start
> multilog on any of my mail servers, and multilog still runs as the qmail log
> user.)
No, I believe you.. I just don't remember ever hearing that before.
Well, at any rate, throwing it in there shouldn't break things.. I am pretty
sure that I had it configured that way (am using svscan now, so qmail-start
just logs to stdout.)
--Adam
