On 02-Feb-99 Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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?
Yes it was installed that way by default.
>
> 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.)
>
I tried /etc/rc.d/init.d/mta start -d9 to start it and it started normally and
I stopped it with /etc/rc.d/init.d/mta stop
I did not need ^C to kill it.
thanks
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Andrew
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