2013/1/10 Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>: > > I think I found the culprit: signaling the parent probably does no longer > work when privs are dropped: > > http://git.adiscon.com/?p=rsyslog.git;a=blob;f=tools/syslogd.c;h=bd5b52cae06eb28cd80fb0afc503276b10c342f2;hb=HEAD#l2003
yeah, you can't kill a root process as unprivileged user. > Now I need to think how to handle that... So you need some kind of communication channgel between the parent and the child process? You could use a unix domain socket [1] for this. Cheers, Michael [1] http://books.google.de/books?id=aL3P3eJdiREC&pg=PT48&lpg=PT48&dq=socket+between+parent+and+child+privilege+drop&source=bl&ots=SSoBDlpQBs&sig=2t9hcxBbBqic42Akkj-HMxuToXE&hl=de&sa=X&ei=gAvvUJ7WOMSxtAbn_4BA&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
