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  • From: nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>
  • To: mlubrano AT sourcemage.org
  • Cc: eric AT sandall.us, sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] exim update
  • Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 16:56:17 -0500

M.L. wrote:
On Dimanche 15 Décembre 2002 21:38, nealbirch wrote:

Eric Sandall wrote:

I also noticed this on my server, when I stopped getting mail and my g/f
complained that she couldn't send anything. So, looking into things
(using mutt as my test program), I found that exim could no longer write
to /var/spool/mail/log/*, even though everything there was mail.mail 660.
So, I checked /etc/xinetd.d/exim, and 'lo and behold, exim is now running
as user/group 'exim' instead of user/group 'mail'. I tried changing the
user/group back to 'mail' and restarting exim, but exim wouldn't hear of
it, kept running as 'exim' anyways. So I put it back to user/group
'exim' and changed the permissions on /var/spool/mail* to use 'exim' as
group on everything, then changed all 'mail' ownership to 'exim', and
voila!

In short, I have my SMTP working again. :)

well, mine don't. annoying. I just did

chown -R exim:exim /var/spool/mail*

though. What did you do to change mail ownership?



I thinks It's related to (in HISTORY):
2002-10-25 M.L. <mlubrano AT sourcemage.org>

Converted spell to use sorcery uid/gid features.

There is an exim user (created in BUILD file), and a mail user.
I never got input or complaints about uid/gid on exim before.... maybe I should make changes to the spell. But I don't know much about exim.

What do you want to change ?


Damned if I know. Let me generate an error message and send it to you. Guess it should go in bugzilla, too.

neal

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