From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/862 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gerrit Pape Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: svlog permissions of working directory ... Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:11:51 +0000 Message-ID: <20050830110719.16478.qmail@a77125e522b596.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> References: <4313D0F9.7080301@ulanji.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125400099 2118 80.91.229.2 (30 Aug 2005 11:08:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:08:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-1098-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Tue Aug 30 13:08:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EA3xA-0006M9-Ft for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:06:56 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 5641 invoked by uid 76); 30 Aug 2005 11:07:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 5636 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2005 11:07:17 -0000 Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Mail-Followup-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4313D0F9.7080301@ulanji.com> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:862 Archived-At: 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.