Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:01:55 -0500 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: exim 4.12-3 winsock problem (was Re: 1.3.21) In-reply-to: <3E5B8599.B853407A@ieee.org> To: "Pierre A. Humblet" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-followup-to: "Pierre A. Humblet" , cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <20030225170155.GI1876@tishler.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i References: <20030221153741.GA26756@redhat.com> <20030221180822.GB1408@tishler.net> <3E566E49.53BE7CBE@ieee.org> <20030221191209.GE1408@tishler.net> <20030224200201.GA2348@tishler.net> <3E5A8939.CE055B7F@ieee.org> <20030224215244.GA2612@tishler.net> <3E5A998A.51607934@ieee.org> <20030225114401.GA1876@tishler.net> <3E5B8599.B853407A@ieee.org> Pierre, On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:02:49AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > So I suggest a simple test: edit /etc/passwd and change the gid of the > exim user to 545, then run again. The above fixed the problem. I apologize for not being able to figure this out myself. > By the way, I am not sure what you try to achieve running the exim > daemon as a special exim user. I'm not: $ sc qc exim [SC] GetServiceConfig SUCCESS SERVICE_NAME: exim TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS START_TYPE : 2 AUTO_START ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL BINARY_PATH_NAME : C:\cygwin\bin\cygrunsrv.exe LOAD_ORDER_GROUP : TAG : 0 DISPLAY_NAME : exim DEPENDENCIES : SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem > Also, it may be just fine to run the daemon with gid 545 but do > deliveries with gid 1009. That's controlled from /etc/exim.conf, group > = mail in the local_delivery transport. I am (and have been) doing the above. > The issue with that approach is if exim execs itself: it will then be > unprivileged with uid 1008 and gid 545 and wouldn't be able to make > local deliveries. I haven't seen the above issue (yet). > I have another question: when you run under strace are things fine or > do you hit another error? Another error: 2003-02-21 11:11:06 IPv4 socket creation failed: Operation not permitted Thanks, Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/