Since this is a common mistake, why not add a small patch to exim to check
its SUID permission when it loads up. I'm sure a message in the LOGS would
save a number of admin headaches :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Goldberg [
mailto:J.Goldberg@Cranfield.ac.uk]
Sent: 28 January 2000 13:44
To: Giles Constant
Cc: exim-users@???
Subject: 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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