On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Phil Pennock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On 2008-09-30 at 19:00 -0400, Chris Zimmerman wrote: > [ delivery subprocesses failing ] > > Has anyone any thoughts on this at all? I'm not sure where to proceed. > > I've just managed to replicate your problem. I'm not sure that it will > help you though, as in my case it was an example of PEBKAC. > > Rebuilding my colo box, second attempt (don't ask) I managed to mess up > the mount options on my devices. Uhm, I'd had less than 2 hours sleep > after a week of short sleep, but my cognac-bribed local hands-on was > there so ... I ended up putting the mount options for /var on /usr. > > Having /usr mounted nosuid is Not A Good Plan. > > In particular, when Exim comes to re-exec itself it fails, despite being > setuid. During the first attempt, it was running as exim before trying > to regain privileges. During the queue-run, it hasn't dropped > privileges so doesn't need to try to regain them. > > Any chance that the problem you're seeing might have a similar cause, > such as lack of setuid bit on the binary or obnoxious mount options? > > -Phil > That is certainly a possibility as I went ahead and just imaged a new machine and transferred over the accounts. Haven't seen the issue since. It was ongoing since the previous machine was built a few months ago. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
