owl-users - Re: rpm warning and openwall temporary file handling

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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:56:15 +0200
From: Jarno Huuskonen <Jarno.Huuskonen@....fi>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: rpm warning and openwall temporary file handling

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 25, Ihsan wrote:
> And I found also problem that I think related to temporary file
> handling on Owl. For example on mysql server (4.1.x) dan clamd antivirus daemon,
> the daemon fail to start with error message like: "Access denied on
> /tmp/.private/root/....."

Before starting the daemons set the temporary directory (TMPDIR/TMP env.
variables) where the daemon user (mysql/clamav?) can create temporary files.
You could try to do something like this:
su - -s /bin/sh mysql (this should create the /tmp/.private/mysql
directory) and then put TMPDIR=/tmp/.private/mysql in the mysql startup
script (probably /etc/init.d/mysqld).  (I also think there's a somekind
of temp dir setting in /etc/my.cnf)

-Jarno

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Jarno Huuskonen