On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> I have a user 'exim' and a group 'exim' defined in /etc/passwd and /etc/group,
> respectively. These correspond to EXIM_UID=18 and EXIM_GID=18
>
> I entered those values in my exim/Local/Makefile and compiled Exim, but when I
> start it with /etc/rc.d/init.d/mta it does not show on 'ps ax' at all and
> nothing shows in exim's mainlog or paniclog.
I assume you have made it setuid=root?
What is the actual command that gets run by /etc/rc.d/init.d/mta? Try
running that command directly, with -d9 added. (If it works, you'll need
to use ^C to kill it.)
> Is it a serious deficiency if I am unable to give Exim a UID and GID? It is
> running as root.root (as a daemon). I don't recall having this problem a few
> versions ago.
Nothing has changed in that regard.
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