Re: [EXIM] permissions/ownership

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Julian
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] permissions/ownership
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Julian wrote:

> Sorry, I should have said, yes it is set.
>
> ls -l /usr/majordomo-lists/getting.bored/aliases/aliases
> -rw-r-----   1 majordom exim        1773 Sep 24 19:57 /usr/majordomo-lists/getting.bored/aliases/aliases

>
> ls -dl /usr/majordomo-lists/getting.bored/aliases       
> drwxr-xr-x   2 majordom exim         512 Sep 24 19:57 /usr/majordomo-lists/getting.bored/aliases

>
> ls -dl /usr/majordomo-lists/getting.bored        
> drwxr-xr-x   7 majordom majordom     512 Sep 25 13:53 /usr/majordomo-lists/getting.bored

>
> ls -dl /usr/majordomo-lists              
> drwxrwxrwx   5 majordom majordom     512 Sep 24 19:57 /usr/majordomo-lists

>
> exim and majordomo can get to everything, although exim can't write
> to everything..


... and I don't suppose /usr is blocked :-) so that is rather odd. Have
you tried testing an address with debugging turned on? That is, run
something like

exim -d9 -bt <address>

though if it still can't get at the file the error message will be the
same.


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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