On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 16:04, Neal D. Becker wrote:
> It is a pain to have to create the exim user in order to do the build. Is
> there a problem to run exim under either mail or maybe mailnull, both of
> which already exist on a RH9 system?
I don't think that exim should, by default, run as a uid/gid with any
other privaleges. This is why I don't like building it as mail (gives
you some extra leverage on the delivery directories).
mailnull, which is rather more recent, might well be the right thing to
use - from my point of view it hits problems of changing the id during
the upgrade from older packages, and I build for older than RH9.
My build machines have exim on anyhow... so I have managed to miss the
build prerequisite. If I had hit it I would have hacked buildconfig
since really the build process should not impose that sort of
requirement on the build machine. So I would just have an extra patch
in the rpm set.
Nigel.
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