At 10:39 PM 8/19/2004 -0500, Mike Skallas wrote: > > chown 18:544 /etc/exim.conf > >Still getting the same "check permissions/owners" error. There is no >root user on this installation (which is weird as I assume root is in >all unixy things) so I also tried making the owner Administrator and the >group System. I also tried System:System. Still no luck. > >I reinstalled exim because I remembered an error that the install script >gave and reran it: > >"[: 5.1: bad number" > >This appears right after the question regarding FQDN. Maybe this is >part of the problem? > >Mike
Did the chown succeed or was there an error message? What does "ls -l /etc/exim.conf" output after the "chown 18:544 /etc/exim.conf"? What is the output of "id"? I am assuming that the "install script" you mention is exim-config. I am looking into that error. Pierre > >Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >> At 09:52 PM 8/19/2004 -0500, Mike Skallas wrote: >> >>>Pierre A. Humblet: >>> >>>>644 permissions are OK, but what are the owner and the group? >>> >>>I (the only user) am the owner and it has no group: >>> >>>$ ls -la exim* >>>-rwxr--r-- 1 mike None 26475 Aug 19 01:51 exim.conf >>> >>>Any ideas? >>> >>>Also, how do I see a list of groups in cygwin? I know passwd shows users >>> and what groups they might be in, but is there a command to view >>>created groups? >> >> >> The groups are listed in the file /etc/groups, which you should have. >> >> /etc/exim.conf should be owned by SYSTEM, with group Administrators >> (which may also be known as "root") >> So just type >> chown 18:544 /etc/exim.conf >> You must be in Administrators for this command to work. >> You can then launch the exim daemon again. >> >> Pierre >> > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/