>From swampler Mon Jun 19 17:16:01 1995
I own a bunch of files and directories in a majordomo-base mailing list
archive (these are not archives of majordomo messages, but files I want
to make available to people on the list).
If I mail majordomo and ask to get a file, I get it.
If someone else mails the same message to majordomo, they don't get the file,
they get the message 'no such file...'.
I've traced it down (I think) that majordomo is trying to create a lock
file in the directory that holds the file, but majordomo doesn't have
write permission into that directory (it's a symbolic link off to
another location...).
So, why does it work for me? I doubt that majordomo does a setuid
to me -- how would it know I have an account at all? Is it just fond
of my name, perhaps because of a past life experience before coming
back as software {hmmm, is that good karma or bad karma}?
I don't want to give people permission to write into this directory
anyway, so does anyone see any serious problems with my changing
where the lock file goes? (I'm aware that there might be name collisions
if I put all lock files into a common 'lock' directory, but in our
case that would be rare enough to safely ignore.)
Thanks!
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Steve Wampler - swampler@gemini.edu [Gemini 8m Telescopes Project (under AURA)]
The Gods that smiled upon your birth are laughing now. -- fortune cookie
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Steve Wampler - swampler@gemini.edu [Gemini 8m Telescopes Project (under AURA)]
The Gods that smiled upon your birth are laughing now. -- fortune cookie
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