Re: mutilog via fifo

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:04:01 -0400

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richard lucassen <[email protected]> wrote:
> open("/dev/stderr", O_RDWR|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, 0666) = -1 EACCES
> (Permission denied)

Ah.  So it looks like you're stuck with patching, running as root, or
using a named pipe.

> So publicfile is started as root, and thus has access to /dev/stderr,
> and after that changes uid/gid. Right or wrong?

It has access because it doesn't call open() at all; it just writes to
the already-open descriptor.

paul