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From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Subject: Re: svlog permissions of working directory ...
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:11:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050830110719.16478.qmail@a77125e522b596.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4313D0F9.7080301@ulanji.com>

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:22:33PM -0400, Sean P. Thomas wrote:
> I am sorry if this is an obtuse question, but why does svlog require
> read permissions on the current working directory (not log directories)?

It's that svlogd opens the current directory to fchdir() back to it
after changing to the several log directories when reading the specific
log configuration, or rotating or processing the current log files.

Regards, Gerrit.


      reply	other threads:[~2005-08-30 11:11 UTC|newest]

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2005-08-30  3:22 Sean P. Thomas
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