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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:39:27 -0500
From: Mike Skallas <mskallas AT childresslaw DOT net>
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To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
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Subject: Re: exim errors
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 > 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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