On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Chris Bayliss wrote:
> We've noticed local email getting stuck on one of our systems. The error
> message is as follows
>
> /usr/exim/bin/exim -v -M 147vu2-0004KZ-00
> delivering message 147vu2-0004KZ-00
> LOG: 0 MAIN PANIC DIE
> Unable to get root to set uid 267 and gid 131 for local delivery to www: uid=799 euid=799
> LOG: 0 MAIN
> == www@www.bham.ac.uk T=local_delivery defer (-1): appendfile transport process returned non-zero status 0x0100: exit code 1
> LOG: 0 MAIN
> Frozen
>
> Something has changed, but we're not aware exactly what. We're using
> Solaris 2.6 and exim 3.16.
>
> Hopefully its something simple and obvious that I'm missing. Any ideas?
Check that your exim binary is setuid root.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
