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On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 12:22, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:42:07AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
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> > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 05:51, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:23:26AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > ---snip---
> > > I am going to think about trying get a hardcoded uid for exim:exim
> > > reserved on Debian.
> > no... No... NOOOOO...
>
> #219299
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> > If you do that Andreas, it'll break the transparency of MTA changeout in
> > Debian... I make systems for other people with Debian's set
> > guidelines... if they want exim/sendmail/qmail/smail/courier/etc... They
> > all use the same uid:gid... I have even enforced this on my RedHat
> > machines, Mandrake Machines and so on... It make life a bit easier, when
> > I enforce Debian Policy on the builds of machines I make and maintain
> > but can't be Debian due to "Officially Supported" on RedHat, SuSE,
> > Mandrake or Gentoo etc...
>
> Could you be more verbose? What would break if exim ran as
> 64025:64025? How does it differ from postfix or qmail, both run with
> different IDs than exim on Debian systems, and apparently nothing
> breaks for you.
/me looks at Andreas points out...
Guessing, I was on crack again, at the time I wrote it...
And you are right, nothing would break for me...
BAH... Thoughtful developers... you and your ilk, really impress me.
Maybe I should just shut up now...
BTW, I ended up updating the OpenSSL(to 0.9.7c) on the machine I was
having the Mail problems with... Re-Compiled Exim... she-bang! Worked
like a race horse... unfroze my messages... all done.
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greg, greg@???
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