Re: [exim] exigrep on rejectlog

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jean-paul natola wrote:
>

*Snip*

>> Do an:
>>
>> ls -lFG /var/log/exim
>>
>> And see who 'owns' the log files, plus insuring that there are no subdirs
>> of same.
>
> it appears the both logs are owned by the same
>
> milter# ls -lFGh /var/log/exim
> total 9968
> -rw-r--r--  1 root      mail   1.3M Oct 24 22:50 1
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail   268K Jan  5 16:23 mainlog
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail   914K Jan  5 10:51 mainlog.0.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root      mail     0B Nov  9 10:16 p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.7
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail   470K Jan  5 15:33 paniclog
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail   1.3M Jan  5 16:23 rejectlog
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail   5.3M Jan  5 10:51 rejectlog.0.gz

>


Note that:

non-root user:group, other than mailnull:mail, do NOT have read access in your
environment (mine DO allow 'read' for the mailing-team user group).

Presuming that you are running either grep or exigrep as root may not be enough.

I am by no means the expert, as - these tests aside - I always use grep myself,
not exigrep.

But I suspect that exigrep *might* drop root privs even if invoked by the root
user. Some other Exim-ish stuff does so.

Marc?

- grep, BTW, definitely makes no such move.

Bill