Philip,
Is there any chance you could modify exim_install to preload the PATH with
some extra directories....
On SunOS chown is in /etc for some daft reason. I don't have /etc in my
path. Every time when I install exim on SunOS, unless I remember to
preload the path correctly, exim is copied into place, and then the chown
files. exim_install interprets that as me not being root. OK, so I then
add /etc to the path, and redo. exim_install then sees that exim is in
place so does not redo it - despite the permissions being wrong.
Alternative solutions. Probably worth linking old exim into exim.O,
writing new one as exim.N, setting permissions and then doing mv exim.N
exim.O - this is more atomic. Of course old one then needs permissions
stripping. [maybe the best approach may be to have an OLD subdirectory
which is mode 777 and moving all the old versions into there with
permissions unchanged - could make a rollback more simple.
Final solution. Get me to remember to add /etc to path - I think you are
on a loser there (I don't use SunOS very much).
Nigel.
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