On Dec 6, 2008, at 3:20 AM, Jari Fredriksson wrote:

>>
>> - One problem I haven't found a solution to is that the
>> /var/run
>> directory where the pid file goes is only writable by
>> root.
>>
>
> /var/run/bacula is the directory where my bacula writes the pid. Its  
> owned by bacula.

It does not have to be owned by bacula.

[dan@ngaio:~] $ ps auwx | grep bacula-dir
bacula   8279  0.0  0.4  8820  4196  ??  Ss   11Oct08   2:03.97 /usr/ 
local/sbin/bacula-dir -u bacula -g bacula -v -c /usr/local/etc

Running as Bacula.

[dan@ngaio:~] $ ls -l /var/run/bacula-dir.9101.pid
-rw-r-----  1 root  wheel  5 Oct 11 21:33 /var/run/bacula-dir.9101.pid
[dan@ngaio:~] $

PID is owned by root, as it should be.  This is proper behaviour.

-- 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/




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