Author: James Ladan Date: To: Andreas J Mueller CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] broken exim installation
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Andreas J Mueller wrote:
> > The permissions for the directory and everything in it *were*
> > root.wheel, but I changed it to exim.exim. When I noticed the
> > permission message, I tried changing the permissions of /var/spool/exim
> > to be exim.exim as well.
>
> The Exim binary *must*[1] be suid root (owner root, mode 4755), in
> order to be able to bind to port 25, and a lot of other things (like
> doing deliveries under different user ids).
Such a short answer to such a long email. :) Works perfectly now,
thanks!!!