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 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20040715072258.0089a560@incoming.verizon.net> X-Sender: vze1u1tg@incoming.verizon.net Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 07:22:58 -0400 To: luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au From: "Pierre A. Humblet" Subject: Re: sending email from Cygwin Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <20040715075759.53AA084C1E@pessard.research.canon.com.au> References: <20040715075243.DD24484C1E@pessard.research.canon.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 05:57 PM 7/15/2004 +1000, luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote: >On 15 Jul, To: Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >> : /home/luke ; mkgroup -l >> /etc/group > >Incidentally, after doing that I see: > >: /home/luke ; exim -oi luke < /tmp/smff3624 >2004-07-15 17:56:06 Exim configuration file /etc/exim.conf has the wrong owner, group, or mode >: /home/luke ; ls -l /etc/exim.conf >-rwx------+ 1 luke Domain U 22025 Aug 29 2002 /etc/exim.conf That should have been set correctly by the postinstall script. The incomplete /etc/group prevented success. >But probably I'd need to run exim-config to have a serious chance of >success? It's only required if you operate a mail server, but in this case it will set the permissions correctly. The reason why you don't see the rights (previous e-mail in thread) is most likely that you get them indirectly through membership in a group. If you are curious about that, the User control panel is your best bet. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/