On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Julian wrote:
>
> Abbreviated, the new machine appears to require that the aliases files
> are owned by exim, whereas the old one didn't care so long as it could
> read them.
>
> LOG: 0 MAIN
> == majordomo@??? D=majordomo_aliases defer (-18): failed to open /usr/majordomo-lists/getting.bored/aliases/aliases for linear search: Permission denied (euid=25 egid=25)
>
> If I chown the files to 25:25 it is fine, but I need them to be
> 125:25
>
> Am I being stupid and it is something obvious, or do you need more
> information?
I assume 25:25 is your Exim group. Exim will be running as 25:25 when it
tries to read the alias file. If it cannot read a file that is 125:25,
then there is a problem with the permissions of that file. Is the "read
by group" bit set?
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