Re: The joy of Qmail

[Charles Cazabon]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> The other big gotcha is that qmail binaries have the uids of the qmail users
> hard coded in them.

Bruce Guenter has a very useful patch to qmail which makes it take its various
UIDs and GIDs from the ownership of a set of files in /var/qmail/owners -- so
if you want to reassign UIDs by searching through the filesystem and
piping the results to chmod scripts, qmail will continue to work just
fine, providing of course that you stop qmail before doing this, and re-start
it after.

The patch is included in his SRPM.

Charles
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Charles Cazabon                            <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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