Circa 2002-11-13 15:05:00 -0700 dixit Colin Harford:
: 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)...
[...]
: 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
Recommend modifying /etc/mtree/special (and /usr/src/etc/mtree/special)
to reflect the proper permissions and ownership for /var/mail/ rather
than trying to work around the OpenBSD default. For example:
- ----------------
Index: special
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/mtree/special,v
retrieving revision 1.40
diff -u -r1.40 special
- --- special 2002/02/13 04:53:54 1.40
+++ special 2002/11/13 23:30:47
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
wtmp type=file mode=0644 uname=root gname=wheel
lastlog type=file mode=0644 uname=root gname=wheel
.. #var/log
- -mail type=dir mode=0755 uname=root gname=wheel ignore
+mail type=dir mode=0775 uname=root gname=mail ignore
.. #var/mail
preserve type=dir mode=0755 uname=root gname=wheel ignore
.. #var/preserve
- ----------------
If you're using /usr/ports/mail/exim/ instead of a self-built package,
then you'll also want to make certain that SPOOL_MODE is set to 0640 in
/usr/ports/mail/exim/files/Makefile.
- --
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