Re: [Exim] fails to re-bind to port 25 after a SigHUP

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Autor: Jeffrey Goldberg
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To: Giles Constant
CC: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [Exim] fails to re-bind to port 25 after a SigHUP
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Giles Constant wrote:

> 2000-01-28 13:31:26 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any) failed:
> Permission denied: waiting before trying again
>
> Exim is running as mail.mail.


That's your problem. Exim should be SUID root

I have:

rwsr-xr-x   1 root     exim     1818624 Jan 18 12:50   exim


As root do as

chown root exim

and

chmod 1755 exim

in the exim/bin directory.

-j
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