* The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> [010423 21:38]:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
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> > The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > > sendmail does it now, and, apparently relatively portable across OSs ...
> >
> > sendmail expects to be root. It's unlikely (and very undesirable) that
> > postgres will be installed with adequate privileges to read /dev/kmem,
> > which is what it'd take to run the sendmail loadaverage code on most
> > platforms...
>
> Actually, not totally accurate ... sendmail has a 'RunAs' option for those
> that don't wish to have it run as root, and still works for the loadavg
> stuff, to the best of my knowledge (its an option I haven't played with
> yet) ...
And 8.12.x will have some other options as well....
Like the SUBMISSION prog only needs to be SGID, not SUID....
LER
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