Okay, so I am running into a few little problems here with OpenBSD and
Exim.
By default in OpenBSD /var/mail is set as:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 13 14:45 mail
and gets reset by default to this everytime that the machine is rebuilt
(can be changed though)...
So, when running exim as root (which I don't want to) I get this
problem... (exim_user = root in exim config file)
2002-11-13 14:46:21 18C5Kx-0004Vf-00 <= owner-cvs-all@???
H=mx2.freebsd.org [216.136.204.119] P=esmtp S=3854
id=20021113214734.GC12995@???
2002-11-13 14:46:21 18C5Kx-0004Vf-00 == charford-list@???
R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: creating
lock file hitching post
/var/mail/charford-list.lock.kajack.infinithost.com.3dd2c82d.00002379
(euid=1002 egid=1002)
I have to set the permissions to 777 on /var/mail/ (chmod 777
/var/mail/) for exim running as root to deliver email...
If I set /var/mail to be owned by user exim, and set exim user to be
exim, I still run into the same problem...
2002-11-13 14:56:26 18C5Ui-0000ry-00 <=
owner-freebsd-current@??? H=mx2.freebsd.org [216.136.204.119]
P=esmtp S=3794 id=200211132157.gADLve8g030552@???
2002-11-13 14:56:26 18C5Ui-0000ry-00 == charford-list@???
R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: creating
lock file hitching post
/var/mail/charford-list.lock.kajack.infinithost.com.3dd2ca8a.0000134f
(euid=1002 egid=1002)
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this so that I can have
exim deliver mail so that:
exim is not running as a priviliged user of any form
and without having to set /var/mail to 777
Thanks,
CH
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