On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Rusty Ballinger wrote:
> > I experience problems when using fam clients as root. I get this error:
> >
> > Aug 26 21:33:33 wantelbos fam[6713]: localclient chown: Operation not
> > permitted
>
> Hey, this is interesting. It looks like this happens when a non-root
> client starts first, and is polling files, and then a root client connects.
> There's only one place where fam does a chown--when it's creating the UNIX
> domain socket for communication with a local client. (If it bails while
> doing that, that probably explains why the client is hanging on a read.)
> This makes me think fam is still running as the first client's UID when
> creating the socket, which is horribly wrong.
Yup, that seems to be in line with the behaviour I've seen.
Cheers,
Waldo
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