Long day and I usually write something stupid under the cicumstances..... I
think if you do a locate on msec, you will find where to change those settings.
http://rpmhelp.net has a nicely pre rolled package. Works out of the box.
Ken
Quoting John Ward <john@???>:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I've installed Exim now on what must be close on 25 boxes and this one has me
> stumped.
> The default permissions for the var spool mail directory is 771 on mandrake
> 9.2
> I recall it previously being 777.
> One fellow even suggested 1777 ( sticky bit) on a newsgroup ( some cygwin
> thing)
>
> I have msec installed on the box ( security checks etc) which insists on
> changing the perms back to 771 as it claims its world writable ( quite
> rightly so).
>
> What can i do to exim to make it work in this 771 mode ?
> the directory is changed back to root:mail ,perms 771, by msec and i'm not
> sure if i want to force it to use 777 or 1777.
>
> exim user is set to exim and exim is part of group mail in /etc/group
> If i dont change the permissions to 777, i get the following error during
> local delivery for "mail -s test john@domain" from command prompt as root:
>
> 2003-12-02 02:10:37 1AQy7h-0001h1-7g <= root@domain U=root P=local S=299
> 2003-12-02 02:10:37 1AQy7h-0001h1-7g unable to set gid=501 or uid=501
> (euid=503): local delivery to john <john@domain> transport=local_delivery
> 2003-12-02 02:10:37 1AQy7h-0001h1-7g failed to read delivery status for
> john@domain from delivery subprocess
> 2003-12-02 02:10:37 1AQy7h-0001h1-7g appendfile transport process returned
> non-zero status 0x0100: exit code 1
> 2003-12-02 02:10:37 1AQy7h-0001h1-7g == john@domain R=localuser
> T=local_delivery defer (-1)
> 2003-12-02 02:10:37 1AQy7h-0001h1-7g Frozen
>
> user john: uid 501
> exim: uid 503
> mail: uid 12
>
> If i'm missing some spike through the left frontal lobe, please excuse me as
> its pretty late and i'm at my wits end.
> Regards
> John
>
>
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Ken Lowther
Comprehensive Internet Services
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