On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I start both of them as root. Does exim always give up its privileges
if given a -C argument ? If that is the case, then I have to compile a
second exim binary, that as default uses /etc/eximmail/exim_outgoing.conf
as it's configurationfile. Isn't that correct ?
Regards
-Michael
>
> > 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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