[Mimedefang] Socket paths

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Fri Feb 23 09:12:24 EST 2007


Richard Laager wrote:

[David Skoll]
>> Because the sockets need to be in a directory that's writable by the
>> "defang" user.

> Why's that? Couldn't the socket itself be writable by the defang user...
> or does the daemon need to unlink() it?

The daemon needs to create the socket.  It's running as "defang" at that
point.

Regards,

David.



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