Sorry to point out the obvious, but why not use the same values that you
used the first time you installed it? Or is this a case where you've
inherited a system from someone else and didnt fully understand it prior
to them leaving?
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
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> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:34:01 EST, Midwest Mold wrote:
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> > I am re-installing exim 3.22 after a total hard drive failure. How do I
> > find the proper uid & gid #'s to plug in?
>
> Sadly, there are no "proper" values, if you take "proper" to mean
> portable.
>
> Several Linux distributions use user mta (8) and group mail (6?), which
> seems sensible. The BSD's only have a standard group mail (6), no
> standard user.
>
> The traditional username for a sandboxed sendmail installation is
> mailnull with no standard value.
>
> As an aside, I'd urge you to leave these values out of the compile-time
> options and supply them as values in the configuration file. That way,
> you can use names instead of numbers, which may become an issue as your
> installation grows beyond a single host.
>
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
>
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