On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Kirill Miazine wrote:
> I noted that retry database is owned by root when it is first created by
> a process initially started as root.
>
> root@ns:/var/spool/exim/db# ls -al
> total 4
> drwxr-x--- 2 exim exim 512 Nov 26 12:05 .
> drwxr-x--- 5 exim exim 512 Nov 25 14:13 ..
> root@ns:/var/spool/exim/db# echo | mail root
> root@ns:/var/spool/exim/db# ls -al
> total 4
> drwxr-x--- 2 exim exim 512 Nov 26 12:07 .
> drwxr-x--- 5 exim exim 512 Nov 25 14:13 ..
> -rw-r----- 1 root exim 0 Nov 26 12:07 retry
> -rw-r----- 1 root exim 0 Nov 26 12:07 retry.lockfile
Hmm. There is code in there that specifically checks for this case, and
is supposed to chown to exim:exim if it creates a database as root. I
will test to be sure that it is actually working.
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