[rbldnsd] Log File Problem

[Armando Ortiz]

> 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?

Because I have it running on port 53.  It needs to run root for that
before it becomes "nobody."

Regards,
Armando Ortiz
The On-Line Traffic School, Inc.
Senior Security/Network Administrator
http://www.onlinetraffic.com