On Jan 15, 2004, at 5:32 PM, Tim Jackson wrote:
> Hi Chad, on Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:22:45 -0700 you wrote:
>
>> This started today. Something is changing the permissions on the exim
>> executable.
> ...
>> This is on a mandrake linux system...
>
> I don't use Mandrake myself, but according to a warning I received from
> Derek Simkowiak (for people using my Exim RPM info at
> http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/exim.php, but it is equally applicable in
> any
> circumstance):
>
> A program called 'msec' may change the installed permissions of Exim's
> binary. You may need to adjust /usr/share/msec/perm.x (where 'x' is
> your
> security level), and set the permissions for /usr/sbin/sendmail to
> 4755.
>
Thanks (and to Suresh as well!)
This was the answer.
I had had to deal with msec in the past on something else but did not
think of it today since this had been working fine since last Spring
and the machine had not had any changes to it (in this area) so why
msec all of a sudden decided to do this I don't know. But modifying
the file above (in my case /usr/local/bin/exim-* since I build exim
from scratch and don't use rpms).
I normally am on FreeBSD but help support a customer's Mandrake machine.
Thanks all
Chad
