On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Tabor J. Wells wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 11:12:49AM -0600,
> hanasaki <hanasaki@???> is thought to have said:
>
> > So the Cron should run as root as well?
>
> It could but it shouldn't have to. The uid you used to build exim should be
> able to do a queue run without giving you an error. The question is why does
> exim think that "mail" is not allowed to run the queue? I suspect that when
> you built your exim binary you specified a user other than "mail" as the
> uid exim runs as.
Did you read the manual before posting the original question? If you
look under -q, it says
-q If the -q option is not followed by a time value, it requests a single
queue run operation. This option requires the caller to be an admin
user. However, there is an option called "prod_requires_admin" which
can be set false to relax this restriction (and also the same
requirement for the -M, -R, and -S options).
If you don't know what an admin user is, a simple grep for "admin user"
on spec.txt finds this as its first match
5.2 Trusted and admin users
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