Re: [EXIM] 1.92 special spool permissions?

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Author: Sherwood Botsford
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Subject: Re: [EXIM] 1.92 special spool permissions?
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:

= On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Sherwood Botsford wrote:
= 
= > LOG: 0 PANIC
= >   Cannot open main log file "/var/spool/exim/log/main": Permission denied
= 
= > [root@rondo exim]# ls -lR /var/spool/exim
= > drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root         1024 Jul 14 14:18 log
= 
= What are the permissions on /var/spool/exim itself? And on /var/spool?


Red Hat Linux release 4.2 (Biltmore)
Kernel 2.0.30 on an i586

System is a lib5c.

Docs say that exim will create spool directories as needed.

[root@rondo ~]# ls -ld /var /var/spool
drwxr-xr-x  12 root     root         1024 Jul 13 05:13 /var
drwxr-xr-x   8 root     root         1024 Jul 15 10:48 /var/spool


First run:
Leaves a new directory
[root@rondo ~]# ls -ld /var/spool/exim
drwxr-x---   2 root     root         1024 Jul 15 10:48 /var/spool/exim



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However:
    
The following steps solve the problem.

1. chown mail /opt/exim/bin/exim
2. chmod u+s /opt/exim/bin/exim
(On this system chown clears the setuid flag)

3. rm -rf /var/spool/exim
4. mkdir /var/spool/exim
5. chown mail /var/spool/exim

Is this likely to get me into other trouble?



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