On 02-Feb-99 Sheldon Hearn wrote:
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>
> On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 09:34:27 PST, Pollywog wrote:
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>> There is my error. I had tried that but used the UID and GID (the numbers
>> as
>> in EXIM_USER=18).
>
> That's not what was wrong. You can specify uid or username and you can
> specify gid or groupname. The documentation doesn't say this
> _explicitly_, but you'd have to be pretty dense not to figure it out
> from the "Unless it consists entirely of digits". :-)
>
>> Also, I thought they had to be capital letters.
>
> _This_ was your mistake.
>
>> I will, as you suggested, review the exim spec file.
>
> This will be your salvation. ;-)
What saved me was the hints given to me here, and I did read the spec too :)
But that was not enough. I had to tinker a bit to find out why I was not
getting log entries. Then I tried something different and all was very clear.
I have fixed it and Exim now runs as owner exim and group exim :)
thanks for the help
--
Andrew
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