Re: [Exim] I need some quick help with ownership and permiss…

chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/exim

chmod u+s /usr/local/sbin/exim

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Daniel Einspanjer wrote:

> Yesterday, I noticed some world writable files in my /usr/local/src directory
> on my linux box, so I went to get rid of them with a chmod -R go-rwx ./src, but
> I accidentally hit enter after the dot. :( Well, I quickly hit ctrl-break, but
> some damage had already been done. Several of the directories in /usr/local
> had their permissions reset. Anyway.. I tried to set them to what I thought
> looked right.. I gave o+rx to bin/ etc/ and exim-3.22/ but just today, I
> noticed that exim wasn't working properly.
>
> It is receiving mail, but not delivering it to local mailboxes.. The paniclog
> is filling with "exec of exim " ["-q" or "-Mc"] " failed: Permission denied",
> and I am too inexperienced in the linux administration world to know why.
> ::sigh:: I tried running an exim -q as root and it runs fine, but I know that
> I compiled exim to run under the user mail as a daemon. Can someone tell me
> what permissions/ownership the executables and config files need? Just a quick
> run down:
>
> #which exim
> /usr/local/sbin/exim
>
> #exim -bP exim_path
> exim_path = /usr/local/exim-3.22/bin/exim
>
> There is a simlink in /usr/local called exim/ that points to
> /usr/local/exim-3.22/
>
> The main config file is in
> /usr/local/etc/exim/exim.conf
>
> The ownership of all of these files is root.root. I didn't think this was a
> problem because I didn't screw that up, only the permissions.
>
> I really appreciate your assistance..
> -- Daniel Einspanjer, daniel@??? on 09/28/2001
>
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