Re: [Exim] problem changing UID

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Auteur: Philip Hazel
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À: Michael Collin Nielsen
CC: exim-users
Sujet: Re: [Exim] problem changing UID
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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