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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 01:10:09PM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote:

>> chown -R is recursive, meaning that it will chown the svlogd 'config' file
>> which resides in the logdir to the user svlogd will run as.
>> I agree this only has theoretical significance.
>
> Again, you're correct; I forgot about the config file - I've only just 
> started using runit (vs. daemontools).
>
> I don't think it's a major issue, but could be fixed by:
>
> chown root "${LOGDIR}"/config

If we're going to be hypercorrect, that solution introduces a race
condition. :)

Andras

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