On 14 Jul, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > exim -oi luke < /tmp/sample
> >
> > I got this error:
> >
> > set{u,g}id failed: 22
> > 2004-07-14 10:48:44 unable to set gid=544 or uid=18 (euid=11021): privilege not
> needed
> >
> > (Which I assume means the opposite: that some privilege *is* needed.)
>
> The first error message above is from Cygwin specific startup code that
> tries to deal with the fact that there is no suid in Windows.
> It's the first such error report.
> What versions of Windows, Cygwin and exim are you using?
> Did you give yourself unusual privileges?
>
> Could you send the outputs of "exim -c" and "id"?
>
> Regarding /usr/sbin/sendmail, it is set to /usr/bin/ssmtp
> by the cron postinstall script (if it doesn't exist).
> The exim-config script offers to set it to exim.
>
> Pierre
$ id
uid=11021(luke) gid=10513(Domain Users) groups=12919(adaytum),10513(Domain
Users),13876(MS_VisualStudio),15155(RitaTS),13761(ZoneAlarm)
$ exim -c
CYGWIN = " nobinmode". Root / mapped to C:\cygwin.
set{u,g}id failed: 22
Starting uid 11021, gid 10513, ntsec 1, privileged 1.
root_uid 11021, exim_uid 18, exim_gid 544.
setgid 10513 10513 0 pid: 3124
setuid 11021 11021 0 pid: 3124
setgid 10513 10513 0 pid: 3124
setuid 11021 11021 0 pid: 3124
setgid 544 10513 -1 pid: 3124
2004-07-15 10:02:26 unable to set gid=544 or uid=18 (euid=11021): privilege not needed
Should I attach a full cygcheck? I'm running Windows XP Professional,
sp1, on a laptop; the cygwin version was initially installed several
years ago, and I update regularly - last time a few weeks ago.
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 DOYLE 1.5.10(0.116/4/2) 2004-05-25 22:07 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
$ cygcheck -s | head -7
Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Thu Jul 15 10:11:01 2004
Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1
Path: c:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\Common\MSDev98\BIN
And the most relevant bit:
Cygwin DLL version info:
DLL version: 1.5.10
DLL epoch: 19
DLL bad signal mask: 19005
DLL old termios: 5
DLL malloc env: 28
API major: 0
API minor: 116
Shared data: 4
DLL identifier: cygwin1
Mount registry: 2
Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
Program options name: Program Options
Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
Cygdrive default prefix:
Build date: Tue May 25 22:07:00 EDT 2004
CVS tag: cr-0x5e6
Shared id: cygwin1S4
My CYGWIN env variable is set to " nobinmode".
luke
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