http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49 ------- Additional Comments From am12@bolis.com 2002-07-01 17:45 ------- It seems to me that running as root then changing user ID's has potential for creating unnecessary bugs or security holes. Running as root just to bypass a file security problem is a bad idea in my opinion. The script doesn't even need to write to /var/run. It only needs access to /var/run/koha, which can be owned by apache. I don't know the various tradeoffs, but potentially the script could be run as something other than root or apache, such as daemon. And just to reiterate, the whole issue of /var/log or /var/run is Linux-specific, and doesn't apply directly to other Unix flavors. Leave the OS-specific items, including file ownership issues, in the shell scripts. The processz3950queue script itself should be as simple as possible. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.