On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Juan Romero Pardines wrote:

> Use /tmp as directory for $pidfile, because the nobody user cannot write
> in /var/run!

! pidfile="/tmp/${name}.pid"
! command_args="--daemon --pid-file ${pidfile} --user nobody"

This does not look safe.

I don't know if distccd is smart enough to generate the pid file safely,
but please verify that. (We wouldn't want it to overwrite someone's
important file because of some malicious pre-made symlink.)

 Jeremy C. Reed

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