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Re: exim errors


> chown 18:544 /etc/exim.conf

Still getting the same "check permissions/owners" error. There is no root user on this installation (which is weird as I assume root is in all unixy things) so I also tried making the owner Administrator and the group System. I also tried System:System. Still no luck.

I reinstalled exim because I remembered an error that the install script gave and reran it:

"[: 5.1: bad number"

This appears right after the question regarding FQDN. Maybe this is part of the problem?

Mike


Pierre A. Humblet wrote:


At 09:52 PM 8/19/2004 -0500, Mike Skallas wrote:

Pierre A. Humblet:

644 permissions are OK, but what are the owner and the group?

I (the only user) am the owner and it has no group:


$ ls -la exim*
-rwxr--r--    1 mike     None        26475 Aug 19 01:51 exim.conf

Any ideas?

Also, how do I see a list of groups in cygwin? I know passwd shows users and what groups they might be in, but is there a command to view created groups?


The groups are listed in the file /etc/groups, which you should have.

/etc/exim.conf should be owned by SYSTEM, with group Administrators
(which may also be known as "root")
So just type
chown 18:544 /etc/exim.conf
You must be in Administrators for this command to work.
You can then launch the exim daemon again.

Pierre


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