[rbldnsd] Log File Problem

[rbldnsd@corpit.ru]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Armando Ortiz wrote:

> > 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."

Right...but if you put the data and log files in say /var/rbldnsd/, 
created a user rbldnsd, and chown rbldnsd /var/rbldnsd, then rbldnsd 
running as rbldnsd will have no trouble logging to /var/rbldnsd/log.

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