Re: From the moderator: READ Please
Robert M. Haas (rhaas@cygnus.arc.nasa.gov)
Mon, 22 May 1995 16:26:58 -0700
> Most likely it is so that sendmail can determine the load average. It
> has a feature that it will start queueing everything (rather than
> delivering immediately) at one load threshhold, and another threshhold
> at which it will begin refusing connections altogether. On some
> systems, there is a system call to get the load average through the
> kernel. On those where there is not, it is necessary to read /dev/kmem
> to get this information.
Sendmail runs as root, though. I would think setgid kmem privileges
would be superfluous.
...Robert