Re: [Exim] something is changing my exim permissions

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Author: Vincent Danen
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To: Chad Leigh -- Shire Net LLC
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] something is changing my exim permissions
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On Jan 15, 2004, at 17:22, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:

> This started today. Something is changing the permissions on the exim
> executable. After the changes, the executable can no longer change its
> uid and gid to match the delivery uid/gid used in my virtual domain
> system...
>
> We made no changes in the exim system today but we did do some
> debugging with exim -N -d -bdf
>
> Here is an ls -al
>
>
> -rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root       645138 Sep  2 18:23 exim-4.22-1*
> -rwx--x--x    1 root     mail       645138 Sep  2 18:36 exim-4.22-2*

>
> The first one is how it normally looks (though it is an older version)
> and the 4,22-2 version is what it is getting changed to.
>
> This is on a mandrake linux system...
>
> Any ideas? It has been working flawlessly until today.


msec is doing this. I had to work around this with my exim rpms for
Mandrake (see rpmhelp.net). The problem is that sendmail is pointing
to the exim binary, and msec seems to be following symlinks (bad, in my
opinion). So you have to tell msec to leave sendmail well enough alone
(which is what my rpm does).

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