Re: Mounting /var nosuid breaks qmail standard installation

[Lars Hansson <lars_(_at_)_unet_(_dot_)_net_(_dot_)_ph>]

On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 03:09, Jeff Ross wrote:
> If your queue is under /var/qmail, (which it will be if you follow the
> Life With Qmail instructions)

Just for the record, this has nothing to do with where your queue is.
What matters is where the binaries are, usually /var/qmail/bin.

> Removing the nosuid attribute from the /var partition and remounting, then
> doing a chmod a+s /var/qmail/queue/mess seems to have solved the problem.

Since nothing runs from /var/qmail/queue/mess this step is not only
unneccesary but wrong and might cause other problems.
Removing nosuid from the /var mount should be enough although you might
need to fix ownership and permissions on the queue. There are tools for
fixing the queue on qmail.org.


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Lars Hansson