* Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> [010423 21:45]:
> * The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> [010423 21:38]:
> > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > > 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....
Actually, the sendmail DAEMON will still have ROOT privs, so it can
read /dev/kmem.
I suspect I don't have as much of an issue if we are sgid kmem...
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