I'm running Exim 4.43 and Mailman 2.1.5 on Solaris 8.
Ahh, found the problem. Even though the binary had setuid, it was owned by
the user exim.
Thank you for the prod. I'd checked the permissions, but not the
ownerships. Opps.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Metheringham" <Nigel.Metheringham@???>
To: "John Abel" <john.abel@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: [exim] Mailman Integration
> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 15:31 +0000, John Abel wrote:
>> I recently installed exim/mailman as per the HOWTO. However, each
>> message sent to a list is being frozen by Exim with the following
>> message:
>>
>> 2004-11-10 15:16:27 1CRuCx-0005CN-F1 unable to set gid=60004 or
>> uid=60004 (euid=60005): local delivery to public
>> <public-request@???> transport=mailman_transport
>
> What version of exim and Mailman, on what OS platform?
>
> I'd rather suspect that your exim binary is not running setuid, which
> will stop a great many things working.
>
> Permissions should look much like this:-
> 2> ls -l /usr/sbin/exim
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 1993331 Oct 7 10:57 /usr/sbin/exim
>
> If you are using Mandrake there is some magic process that wanders
> around breaking permissions on files - theres some info in the archives
> about this.
>
> Nigel.
>
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