On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Why the hell did this work anyway?
>
> cat > e.conf<<'EEE'
> spool_directory = ${run{/bin/chown root:root /var/spool/exim4/setuid}}
> ${run{/bin/chmod 4755 /var/spool/exim4/setuid}}
> EEE
> exim -Ce.conf -q
>
> Why are we invoking ${run...} directives in the config file as root? Why
> aren't we doing it as the Exim user?
What proportion of exim installations use the ${run...} ${dlfunc...}
and ${perl...} directives (I can find no evidence that we have ever
used any of them ) ?
Is there a good reason not to leave these features out of the default
build and make them available only as a compile time option ?
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