On Mon, 22 May 2000, Theo E. Schlossnagle wrote:
> I don't remember writing this to the list before, so I will write it
> now... I just tried 3.14 on several machines and saw some strange
> behaviour comapred to 3.02 -> 3.13
I don't recall seeing it before.
> I used the EXIM_UID and EXIM_GID flag in the makefile so that Exim would
> run as user exim if at all possible and noticed some serious problems.
>
> It apepar to run as user exim for *almost* everything it does, except
> creation of spool files. I am using split spools from a Exim 3.02 and
> upgraded to 3.14 and no, no matter what I set my permissions to in the
> Makefile, all my spool files are created:
> OWNER: root, GROUP: exim, PERM: 600
That is odd. I have just set split_spool_directory on my testing
version, and files ended up with user and group "exim", so I'm not sure
how to diagnose this further.
> I tried to change the define in the makefile to create them with 660
> permissions, which would have been a good temporary fix, but that didn't
> work. I had to comment out the EXIM_UID line in the Makefile and
> recompile.
My settings are
EXIM_GID=42
EXIM_UID=42 #comment
SPOOL_DIRECTORY=/var/spool/exim
SPOOL_MODE=0640
Has anybody else has this problem?
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