RE: [Exim] Frozen deferred messages

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Mike Bethune wrote:

> > and a delivery process has done a re-exec on the Exim binary, so the
> > signal handlers should have all been reset.
> >
> > Hmm. There are some non-standard configurations where the re-exec does
> > not happen. Mike, can you confirm that you are running a
> > "standard" type
> > of configuration? (exim setuid to root, for example).
> >
> > Philip
>
> aha, no I wouldn't be doing a re-exec since I have
> deliver_drop_privilege set, my exim binary is mail.mail perms
> 6751

And mine runs as root, so it doesn't need to re-exec itself -
just fork and setuid.

-aw