Re: 1.3.21

[Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>]

Pierre,

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:22:01PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Jason Tishler wrote:
> > I just upgraded exim to 4.12-3 from 4.10-2 and exim started to
> > misbehave when run under Cygwin CVS (from 2003-02-20).
> > 
> > First, I noticed the following in exim's log file:
> > 
> >     2003-02-21 11:06:10 cannot find smtp/tcp service when starting daemon
> > 
> > Under strace or gdb, the above problem did not occur.  Instead, I
> > got the following:
> > 
> >     2003-02-21 11:11:06 IPv4 socket creation failed: Operation not permitted
> > 
> > which is further on during the initialization of the daemon.
> 
> Has this part of the exim daemon changed between 4.10 and 4.12?

AFAICT, no.

> This reminds me of something similar, possibly last month.  Look for
> "exim", "services", "gerritt" In the end it was because exim was
> running as a special user who didn't have permission on the whole tree
> under c:\winnt.  First make sure Everybody has rx access to it.

I found some 770s, changed them to 775, but still no luck.

The above doesn't explain why the attached works when run under the exim
account even with the "bad" permissions:

    $ ssh exim at localhost /tmp/getservbyname
    getservbyname(smtp, tcp) succeeded
    port = 6400

It also doesn't explain with gdb and strace "fixed" the bad permissions
too.

Thanks,
Jason

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