ian@??? wrote:
> I have had a stable exim system running for a few months, no problems
> until last night. I made a symlink for sendmail so I could configure php
> to ise exim as the mta when using its mailto() function.
>
> -rws--s--x 1 root mail 533287 Feb 27 12:32 exim-4.12-4*
you say that the permissions for the exim binary are getting reset?
or is it the permissions for your /usr/sbin/sendmail that are getting reset?
For example, mandrake linux 9 has / had some kind of service called msec
that watches for files with what it considers unsafe permissions, and
resets these to more secure permissions.