[1881] in bugtraq
Re: From the moderator: READ Please
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Mon May 22 16:26:58 1995
From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
To: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 18:53:02 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: claudio@fire.di.unipi.it, bugtraq@crimelab.com
In-Reply-To: <199505221510.JAA06128@ncar.ucar.EDU> from "Greg Woods" at May 22, 95 09:10:25 am
> > 1) Some new releases of sendmail install the program as group kmem.
> > I can't see any good reason for this
>
> Most likely it is so that sendmail can determine the load average.
This is not necessary on Linux (which the original poster mentioned),
which has a world-readable /proc/loadavg pseudofile.
--
Shields.
