On Apr 15, 2008, at 12:15 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Ricardo Newbery 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.
I must not be making myself clear. Let me try again... Assuming that "nobody" is an available user on your system, then is the "-u user" option for varnishd superfluous? Ric _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
