In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ricardo N ewbery writes: >I'm trying to understand the purpose of the "-u user" option for >varnishd. It appears that even when starting up as root, and the >child process dropping to "nobody", Varnish is still saving and >serving from cache even though "nobody" doesn't have read/write access >to the storage file owned by root.
The file is opened before the cache process drops to nobody, and in UNIX the access check is performed at open time and not at read/write time. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
