Subject: Re: postqueue: fatal: unable to determine open file limit
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <p@ppires.org>
List: current-users
Date: 01/10/2007 21:08:13
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Em Quarta 10 Janeiro 2007 19:45, Jukka Salmi escreveu:
> Sarton O'Brien --> current-users (2007-01-11 07:23:26 +1100):
> > On Thursday 11 January 2007 03:33, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > flushing the Postfix queue as non-root on a 4.99.6 system prints
> > >
> > > $ postqueue -f
> > > postqueue: fatal: unable to determine open file limit
> >
> > I get the same error when trying to send an email via mutt. I think it
> > relates to a setuid issue? .... either way I believe it may be corrected
> > in the latest current but haven't tested yet.
>
> I just tried with the latest kernel sources but still see the problem.
>
> It seems to be a problem with setgid binaries setting resource limits.
> As a non-privileged user the attached program succeeds:

Any set[gu]id program was suffering from this problem.  I think Elad Efrat =
was=20
working on fixing it, but I don't know if he has already submitted his=20
patches and if they indeed fix the problem.

=2D-=20
	Pappires

=2E.. Qui habet aurem audiat quid Spiritus dicat ecclesiis.

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