Re: [exim] group daemon was not found ?

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Author: Pablo L. Arturi
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] group daemon was not found ?
>Quoting Pablo L. Arturi:
>
>>>> group daemon was not found
>> OS: Linux Fedora Core 3, Exim 4.24:
>
>ok, pretty common (except that the Exim version is a little old now).
>
>> line 617: group = daemon
>
>I guessed so :)
>
>Does it work with another group?



No. If I change the group I get the exact same error.

Among other things, while trying to use the sendmail application
/usr/sbin/sendmail I get the same "group daemon was not found" and it
complains about the exim.conf 617 line.

>Please inject a message that hits this router in a debug session, e.g.
>with "echo pseudo-tst | exim -d+all-memory mailing-list[at]domain".
>The output is huge, so you should look for the failing group change and
>post the output here (or put the full output on some http server).


This is the output:

[root@ns1 log]# echo pseudo-tst | exim -d+all-memory parturi@???
21:23:50 31285 Exim version 4.60 uid=0 gid=0 pid=31285 D=fffdffff
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (September 21, 2004)
Support for: crypteq iconv() Perl OpenSSL move_frozen_messages
Content_Scanning Old_Demime
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
21:23:50 31285 changed uid/gid: forcing real = effective
21:23:50 31285 uid=0 gid=0 pid=31285
21:23:50 31285 auxiliary group list: <none>
21:23:50 31285 configuration file is /etc/exim.conf
21:23:50 31285 log selectors = 000024ac 0005cc09
21:23:50 31285 cwd=/var/log 3 args: exim -d+all-memory parturi@???
21:23:50 31285 trusted user
21:23:50 31285 admin user
21:23:50 31285 changed uid/gid: privilege not needed
21:23:50 31285 uid=8 gid=12 pid=31285
21:23:50 31285 auxiliary group list: <none>
21:23:50 31285 LOG: PANIC DIE
21:23:50 31285 Exim configuration error in line 617 of /etc/exim.conf:
21:23:50 31285 group daemon was not found
21:23:50 31285 search_tidyup called
21:23:50 31285 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Exim pid=31285 terminating with rc=1
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>



Thanks in advance,

Pablo