[exim] Advice on patching Exim to be root for Exim -C config…

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Author: mark david mcCreary
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To: exim-users
Subject: [exim] Advice on patching Exim to be root for Exim -C config-file
I've got some dedicated servers (no local users) running mailing
lists, with multiple binaries of Exim, to avoid the disadvantages
of running Exim -C.

I did this 10 years ago (see
http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-19970728/
003133.html if you want the details).

I want to see if I can clean things up a bit, and run just one
Exim binary, so I'm thinking of patching Exim to keep root when
invoked with -C config-file.

Would anybody want to advise me not to do this ?

Thanks for any feedback.

mark

p.s. And if anybody has a patch to accomplish this, I'd love to
see it.