Thanks, Mandrake 9 does have a service called msec in crontab, default
settings cause it to run every hour. I stopped the job and the permissions
stayed as required.
Ian
> 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.
