Pigeon writes:
> To force delivery of email to remote addresses, it seems that I have to
> pon and then exim -qf. For exim -qf, I have to be root. I'd rather not
> have to.
You shouldn't have to. Exim should have installed /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim,
containing:
#!/bin/sh
# Flush exim queue
if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim ]; then
/usr/sbin/exim -qf
fi
> BUT... /usr/sbin/exim is setuid root. Huh?
I expect that for security reasons exim gives up its root privileges
whenever it thinks it doesn't need them.
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John Hasler
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