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 15:21:23 -0500 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: exim 4.12-3 winsock problem (was Re: 1.3.21) In-reply-to: <3E5BAB43.94FFA9ED@ieee.org> To: "Pierre A. Humblet" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-followup-to: "Pierre A. Humblet" , cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <20030225202123.GN1876@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: <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> <20030225170155.GI1876@tishler.net> <3E5BAB43.94FFA9ED@ieee.org> Pierre, On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:43:31PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Jason Tishler wrote: > > The above fixed the problem. I apologize for not being able to > > figure this out myself. > > Actually I'd rather have you hit this problem than almost anybody > else. Figuring out what was happening without accurate strace output > took some doing. Thanks for your gentle treatment and kind words. :,) > Can you invest a little more time and try to understand why wsock > doesn't start without it (e.g. lookup how privileges are assigned on > your system)? I'd like to detect the bad situation and log a warning. I tried adding a group:mail:r-x ACL to the following: /mnt/c /mnt/c/WINNT /mnt/c/WINNT/system32 /mnt/c/WINNT/system32/drivers /mnt/c/WINNT/system32/drivers/etc /mnt/c/WINNT/system32/drivers/etc/services /mnt/c/WINNT/system32/*.dll /mnt/c/WINNT/system32/*.DLL but I still failed in the same way. Any other suggestions of where to poke and prod? > > I'm not: > > So let me rephrase the question: is there a particular reason why you > have defined an exim user (in addition to having a mail group for > deliveries, I know that makes a lot of sense). Not really -- it may just be "historical". Remember, I started with your 4.02, upgraded to my private 4.10, upgraded to your 4.10, and now upgraded to your 4.12. IIRC, some doc recommended running as a user other than root (i.e., LocalSystem). It seems safer to do so unless really required. 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/