FYI, the message below is from the cygwin list. It looks like post install isn't privileged even when running setup as Administrator. There is no problem with the exim package itself.
I have been unable to reproduce the symptoms as I don't see the administrator login window when I run setup as a normal user on NT4. Pierre >From: "Youssef Eldakar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: exim 4.10-2: exim.conf Permissions >Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 09:24:21 +0200 > >I used setup.exe to select exim. (I ran setup.exe as a normal user, but >entered Administrator password in the beginning of setup.) I did not edit >exim.conf at all. > >I just did `sh -x /etc/postinstall/exim.sh`, and it generated exim.conf with >the right mode (664) - strange. <Pierre: Not strange. He was logged in as admin.> > >Thank you. > >Youssef Eldakar >Bibliotheca Alexandrina >Shatby, Alexandria 21526 >Tel: +20-3-4839999 >Fax: +20-3-4879422 >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Youssef Eldakar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 7:08 PM >Subject: Re: exim 4.10-2: exim.conf Permissions > > >> Youssef Eldakar wrote: >> > >> > The exim 4.10-2 package sets /etc/exim.conf to mode 777. Attempting to >start >> > exim (`exim -bd`) fails with the error: >> > >> > 'Exim configuration file /etc/exim.conf has the wrong owner, group, or >mode' >> > >> > The fix is to set /etc/exim.conf to mode 755. >> >> Could you explain exactly what you did to get that result? >> Did you edit the file? >> >> exim.conf can be created automatically from two places: >> 1) during setup, by /etc/postinstall/exim.sh, >> if it doesn't exist already. >> 2) by a user running /bin/exim-config >> As far as I can see the mode is set to 644 in both cases. >> >> If it happened during setup, please try the following: >> cd /etc >> mv exim.conf exim.conf.bak >> sh -x postinstall/exim.sh.done >> >> You should get a new exim.conf with the right modes. >> Send me the output of the sh if it looks interesting. >> >> Pierre > > >
