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[HEADS-UP] Upgrade pitfall in 4.0 alpha3

2007-05-05 by Emmanuel Dreyfus

Just in case people did not notice, I repost it with a more visible
title. alpha4 will fix the issue.

Note that if the user milter-greylist runs as (smmsp for instance) can
write to the directory where the PID file is stored (/var/run for instance), 
then you'll have no problem.

On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 08:11:21AM +0200, manu@... wrote:
> <ca35763+mgl@...> wrote:
> 
> > Obviously it can't write to /var/run!  My intent was to point out that
> > alpha 2 wrote the pidfile as root.  The alpha 3 "Cleanup stale PID file on
> > startup" apparently changed pidfile user too.  I didn't know if that was
> > the intended behavior.
> 
> Yes, that change introduce a nasty upgrade trap. It will be fixed in
> alpha 4.
> 
> -- 
> Emmanuel Dreyfus
> http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
> manu@...

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@...

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