On Mon May 27, 2002 at 07:46:42PM +1000, Mark Williamson wrote:

[...]
> > You can base your exim rpm on my own (www.rpmhelp.net), which I think
> > was done for 8.0 or 8.1 (forget which).  It hasn't been updated in a
> > while.
> > 
> > I think it will resolve this problem.  Just taking a peek at my rpm
> > (for version 3.33... yes, I haven't touched it in a while), I forced
> > exim to use the uid/gid for the user/group "mail", so nothing special
> > needs to be done.
> 
> O.K. will have a look at that one..  1 problem that I had was with
> "msec" it kept changing the permission of the /usr/sbin/exim_base file
> and some of the other directories..  I solved the problem via 
> "rpm -e msec" but if I was building a totally Mandrake rpm that anyone
> could use i would have to address that issue.  I guess i would have to
> design the RPM to place a line like
> 
> /usr/sbin/exim_base       exim.mail              4755
> 
> in /usr/share/msec/perm.* files  not really sure about msec though.. 
> there is only so many hours in day..    

Yeah, you'll have to do something like this.  This is one reason I
would like msec to parse "source" files in something like
/etc/security/msec/msec.d/ or something (BTW, you want to edit the
files in /etc/security/msec, not in /usr/share/msec).  Then the exim
package could install /etc/security/msec/msec.d/exim which would
contain the proper permissions for the exim server.

> BTW: exim works great on Mandrake    ;)

I know... I ran it for a while on a spare server just to play with
it... had it archiving a dozen or so mailing lists (some high traffic)
with mhonarc... worked great, but I'm a qmail junkie so I switched
back after a while.  =)

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