[SA-exim] 297623: Solution to sa-exim permission problems under Debian
Ross Boylan
ross at biostat.ucsf.edu
Thu Mar 10 16:40:24 PST 2005
As reported earlier to this bug, sa-exim was getting lots of errors
attempting to write logging information.
/var/spool/sa-exim/, where it was trying to write, had owner and group
of "mail".
However, under Debian, exim4 runs as "Debian-exim" for many of its
initial operations. sa-exim appears to run under this user id.
By executing
# chgrp -R Debian-exim /var/spool/sa-exim
I seem to have fixed the permission troubles.
Probably both the user and group should be Debian-exim.
This issue is Debian specific (i.e., it only matters for the Debian
package). Note exim4 is the default MTA for sarge.
The choice of Debian-exim4 is deliberate, an attempt to conform to
Debian policy. So I think it's the sa-exim package that needs to
change.
Perhaps this is only an issue for upgraders.
cc'ing various lists of people who might want to know about this.
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