Re: [Exim] unable to set gid or uid

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Norihisa Washitake
CC: exim-users
New-Topics: [Exim] ignore delivery error
Subject: Re: [Exim] unable to set gid or uid
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Norihisa Washitake wrote:

> > % ls -lA /usr/local/exim/bin/
> > > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      12  Apr  8 00:09 exim -> exim-4.02-10
> > > -rwsr-xr-x  1 root root  533266  Apr  8 00:09 exim-4.02-10
> > > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  533266  Apr  8 04:15 exim-4.02-10.daemon

> >
> > 'exim-4.02-10' and 'exim-4.02-10.daemon' is almost the same
> > but the setuid bit of *.daemon is off. I run exim daemon by:
>
> Well, I mean, I tried both setuid'ed version and not-setuid'ed version
> and both failed. So I thought it's not because of setuid problems.


I'm sure it must be some kind of setuid problem. Do you start the daemon
as root? Have you ever HUPped the daemon? Are those two binaries
compiled with the same setting for BIN_DIRECTORY?

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