Ahem! I checked the permissions on the exim binary and instead of being
rwsr-xr-x they were rwxr-xr-x so maybe that's where ther setuid/setgid
problem lies. Watch this space! :)
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: dmacpher@??? [
mailto:dmacpher@multimedia.edu]
Sent: 13 November 2001 17:34
To: Paul.Walsh@???
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim runs for a while then dies
> 2001-11-13 16:04:46 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv4)
> failed: Permission denied: daemon abandoned
this sounds like multiple instances of the daemon.
> Also (though probably unrelated), even though the new system has the
> same permissions set on /var/mail and the same /etc/passwd and
> /etc/group files as the SPARC20, the following appears in panic log:
>
> 2001-11-13 16:00:04 163fyl-00009J-00 Unable to get root to set uid
> 60001 and gid 60001 for local delivery to root: uid=7000 euid=7000
> 2001-11-13 16:00:04 163fyl-00009J-00 failed to read delivery status for
> root@??? from delivery subprocess
> 2001-11-13 16:00:04 163fyl-00009J-00 appendfile transport process
> returned non-zero status 0x0100: exit code 1
could be is the mailbox is trying to get written to twice.
