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[nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>]

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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