On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 07:00:34 -0500 Phil Pennock wrote: [ ... ]
> You didn't read README.UPDATING or the announcement for 4.73? Yes, maybe I misunderstand it :-( [ ... ] > See README.UPDATING for more. | * The Exim run-time user can no longer be root; this was always | strongly discouraged, but is now prohibited both at build and | run-time. If you need Exim to run routinely as root, you'll need to | patch the source and accept the risk. Here be dragons. I have EXIM_USER=ref:exim in Local/Makefile. User "exim" is uid 103 in /etc/passwd. But the binary is -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 864428 Feb 9 11:27 exim-4.74 Setuid to bind to port 25, I guess? Or should I remove it? --Frank Elsner -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
