Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/08/19/23:59:09
No errors when doing the chown. Output:
mike AT emma /etc
$ chown 18:544 /etc/exim.conf
mike AT emma /etc
$ id
uid=1003(mike)gid=513(None)groups=0(root),513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users)
I've also noticed the exim resides in both /bin and /usr/bin. Is this
correct?
> I am assuming that the "install script" you mention is exim-config.
Yep, correct.
I just tried "net start exim" and it works after doing that last chown
just now. No idea why it just decided to work.
The only odd thing I can find on here is that the exim installation
exists in both /bin and /usr/bin. I'm assuming /usr/bin is a link to the
/bin directory.
Mike
Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> At 10:39 PM 8/19/2004 -0500, Mike Skallas wrote:
>
>>>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
>
>
> Did the chown succeed or was there an error message?
> What does "ls -l /etc/exim.conf" output after the "chown 18:544
> /etc/exim.conf"?
> What is the output of "id"?
>
> I am assuming that the "install script" you mention is exim-config.
> I am looking into that error.
>
> Pierre
>
>
>>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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