What issues are there with running mrtg as root?

Bjorn


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Kramarov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 22 June 2001 6:19 a.m.
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: About qmailmrtg7
> 
> 
> I think it should be noted in the install docs, that the user 
> running mrtg
> should have access to the /var/qmail/queue directory, otherwise
> qmailmrtg7 -q will not work. I personally running mrtg from cron under
> "mrtg" user, that doesn't have access to almost anything. my 
> solution was :
> 
> chown qmailq:qmail /usr/local/bin/qmailmrtg7
> chmod +s /usr/local/bin/qmailmrtg7
> 
> any better ideas (considering that I don't want to run mrtg 
> under qmailq or
> root)?
> 
> Alex.
> 
> 
> 

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