exim-3.16.2 Running mostly RH7, except cyrus-imap and exim are from Rawhide. exim -bV works, whilst exim -bP dies with exim: failed to restore gid: Operation not permitted effectively kills eximon as well - can't figure out where the log files are. I see that exim is suid root under rawhide, which it was not under 3.13 of RH7. 3.13 failed miserably -Dave
Hmm, I can't reproduce this. :-/ What does ls -l /usr/sbin/exim say?
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 1238108 Oct 18 17:35 /usr/sbin/exim Can run exim -bP as user mail, but not as root, or not as anyone else in the mail group. I've been changing to user mail to run the admin stuff. Haven't monkeyed with it in about a month. eximon still has problems - running it as user mail works, but it gets confused, and the bottom window doesn't update right. You can close the case if you want.
I will. In newer exims there is a 'hide' keyword which allows more fine-grained access control, and so we no longer ship the -bP patch.