MFS question - FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT

[Peter Jeremy]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:53:25AM +0000, Rob MacGregor wrote:
>I'm trying to use a RAM disk for running some software's temporary spool 
>(MIMEDefang) out of.  The aim is to boost the performance by removing the 
>need for disk writes for temporary files.

Note that softupdates will not perform any physical writes for short-
lived (say less than 30 seconds) files.

>Is there any way to achieve this?  Because it defaults to 1777 for the 
>permissions Sendmail is complaining (rightly) on startup about a world 
>writable directory.

All I can suggest is patching rc.d/sendmail to fix the permissions before
starting sendmail.  If you don't want to patch this script, you could
create another rc.d script that has something like "REQUIRE: mountall"
and "BEFORE: sendmail".

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Peter