On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Michael Collin Nielsen wrote:
> I use MailScanner to scan all mail for virus, and therefore I have an
> 'incomming' and an 'outgoing' exim proces, proces information is like
> this:
>
> as exim /pack/exim-4.05/bin/exim -bd
> as exim /pack/exim-4.05/bin/exim -C /etc/eximmail/exim_outgoing.conf -q30m
Do you start the second one as root? If not, the use of -C is going to
make it give up its privilege.
> Again I could suspect that exim somehow does not want to thange uid.
It can't if it's given up its privilege.
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