[rbldnsd] Log File Problem
rbldnsd@corpit.ru
rbldnsd@corpit.ru
Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:56:01 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Armando Ortiz wrote:
> Great tool...I've been setting up spam traps and such and automating the
> process of collecting IP's. So far I've dumped quite a few emails using
> this, so good work!
>
> Now to the problem:
> Whenever I had started the daemon to set its userid/group to
> nobody:nogroup and try to log the daemon in /var/log/rbldsnd.log, I got a
> permissions denied error. I had to end up touching the file and owned it
> by nobody:nogroup with write permissions. Shouldn't this be done
> automatically?
You mean before dropping root privileges? Why not just create a user just
for rbldnsd to run as, and have it log to a file in a directory owned by
that user?
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