Re: [Exim] exim -q "exim: permission denied" problem

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Autor: hanasaki
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A: Tabor J. Wells
Cc: exim-users
Asunto: Re: [Exim] exim -q "exim: permission denied" problem
So the Cron should run as root as well?

Tabor J. Wells wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:56:34PM -0600,
>hanasaki <hanasaki@???> is thought to have said:
>
>>I have exim installed as:
>>
>>-rwsr-xr-x    1 mail     mail       525804 Dec 27 22:47 /usr/sbin/exim

>>
>>and a cron job running exim -q every 15 minutes as the user mail. Run
>>as mail, there is an error "exim: permission denied". Run as root there
>>is no error. All of the files in /var/spool/exim are mail:mail
>>
>>What could be causing this problem?
>>
>
>Is user "mail" what you built exim with as your EXIM_UID? If not, well, why
>not? Or alternatively you could set "mail" as a trusted_users if there's a
>reason that exim isn't compiled with mail as your EXIM_UID. Also as an
>aside, a typical installation has the exim binary suid root as well. So be
>aware that this may cause you problems depending on how you're using exim.
>
>Tabor
>


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