Hi all,
I've been doing some testing on my Synchronet 3.21 system under Linux, and I ran
into something I'm not entirely sure I'm interpreting correctly. I wanted to ru
n it by the group in case I'm misunderstanding expected behavior.
My setup is a fairly standard one where Synchronet starts as root (to bind to lo
w ports) and then drops privileges to the sbbs user.
While troubleshooting an unrelated login delay, I noticed that after restarting
the BBS using sudo, a couple of files ended up owned by root:
- /sbbs/data/msgs/0001.msg
- /sbbs/data/error.log
When those files are owned by root, logging in (especially as user #1) introduce
s a noticeable delay during the logon process. Once I change ownership back to s
bbs:sbbs, the delay goes away immediately.
That made me wonder a couple things:
- Is it expected that these files might be created or touched before the privile
ge drop occurs?
- Or should they normally end up owned by the runtime user (sbbs) even after a r
estart?
- Is there a recommended way to avoid this situation when restarting (for exampl
e, a preferred service method)?
It's entirely possible I'm missing something about the startup sequence, so I fi
gured I'd ask before digging further in the wrong direction.
Really appreciate any insight.
-Winzlo
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