On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Patrick MacKeown wrote:
> Exim gives me this error when I send mail to root.
>
> Sep 30 13:10:33 ns1 exim[2822]: could not open panic log - original error was: 1999-09-30 13:10:33 11WmXB-0000jU-00 Unable to get root to set uid and gid for local delivery to root: uid=1199 euid=1199
>
> This happens whether ~exim/configue never_users = root
> is set or not.
You've forgotten to make the exim binary setuid root.
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