Re: xfstt 0.9.99 uploaded - some news with it

1999-05-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 23, Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> /var/run/xfstt like other similar programs do. >Couldn't we just set the sticky bit on /var/run ? We don't need another world writeable directory in /var. -- ciao, Marco

Re: xfstt 0.9.99 uploaded - some news with it

1999-05-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 10:24:17PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > This is NOT an excuse for running as root. Make it create the pidfile in > > /var/run/xfstt like other similar programs do. > > Couldn't we just set the sticky bit on /var/run ? No, that cre

Re: xfstt 0.9.99 uploaded - some news with it

1999-05-23 Thread Greg Stark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Apr 28, "Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The MAIN process runs as root. This is because if it recieves a kill signal > >it needs to clean up its pid file. Can't do that if it was not root (not > >without the permissions on /v