Re: [pcp] odd problem in qa/255 for UNIX domain socket for pmcd

[Dave Brolley <brolley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/19/2013 10:12 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > [...]
> > pmcd is running as pcp at this point, so it is never going to be able to remove 
> > pmcd.socket setup like this
> >
> > kenj@bozo-laptop:~/src/pcp/qa$ ls -l /var/run/pcp
> > total 4
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Jul 19 20:27 pmcd.pid
> > srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 19 20:27 pmcd.socket
> Hm, why isn't pmcd creating that socket after the setuid transition, ie. as 
> pcp:pcp?
We solved this by creating /var/run/pcp as '775 root pcp':

commit f31ccfc82dfe79d444637b132feb71148458408c
Author: Dave Brolley <brolley@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Jul 3 21:19:16 2013 -0400

    Make sure that $PCP_RUN_DIR is insatlled as '775 $PCP_USER $PCP_GROUP'.

Dave