Re: [HTCondor-users] OT Re: Solved: Re: centos 7 problem

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/06/2015 01:54 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 4/6/15 2:30 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
>> So either every program that does a double-fork must start as root,
>> open all the files it needs, then immediately drop privileges, or
>> it must create its transient files in TMPDIR instead of /var/run. I
>> see an easy way to fix bad code.
> 
> It's not about writing files.

It's unix, everything is about files. Daemon running as foo:bar cannot
create its transient state files in /run owned by root:root mode 755. X
has been using /tmp since always, I've never seen a /var/run/X11. I
wonder why.

-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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