Re: [EXIM] Frozen messages "Unable to get root..."

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Συντάκτης: Malcolm Beattie
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Αντικείμενο: Re: [EXIM] Frozen messages "Unable to get root..."
John Horne writes:
> On 13-Oct-98 at 16:25:20 Malcolm Beattie wrote:
> > I'm running exim 2.02 under Soalris (for this particular case) and
> > getting occasional (a few a day) frozen messages in the queue. The
> > associated messages in the panic log are of the form:
> >
> > 1998-10-13 15:51:30 <message-id> Unable to get root to set uid and gid for
> > local delivery to <username>: uid=82 euid=82
> >
> Is the program 'exim' itself setuid root?


Oh bugger. That was it. I'd copied it between cluster nodes and the
suid bit hadn't quite made it across. Many thanks. I'll go away now
and hide in a dark corner for a while.

--Malcolm

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Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@???>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services

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