Re: [Exim] Safe, reliable use of exim -C?

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Szerző: Philip Hazel
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Címzett: Kevin P. Fleming
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> In this case, these Exim daemons will never do any local delivery (there
> are no local users), and all remote deliveries will be over TCP sockets
> (SMTP or LMTP). There will be lookups against a MySQL database using a
> Unix-domain socket. As best I can tell, in this environment Exim is
> never going to have to "regain" root privilege once it has given it up,
> so I should be safe using -C to point to my config files.


That would indeed seem to be the case.

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