On 28-Jan-99 Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
>> As soon as I start Exim with /etc/rc.d/init.d/mta start, it crashes and
>> 'ps ax' shows it is not running. If I compile Exim with GID of 0, I do
>> not have this problem.
>
> I'm afraid that "it crashes" isn't really enough information for me to
> diagnose the problem. What do you get when you run
>
> exim -d9 -bd -q1h
>
> (or whatever parameters you have in /etc/rc.d/init.d/mta plus -d9)? [If
> you haven't setuid root then you'll have to run this as root.]
>
> Alternatively, is there anything in the Exim log file or the Exim panic
> log file?
Nothing in the logs. It is working now. To run those tests, I would have
to recompile it with GID 8. Couldn't I put the GID and UID in the
configure file instead and then run those tests if Exim does not run?
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