On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 05:04:01PM +0100, Andrzej Kukula wrote:
> On 31 Dec 98 at 16:27, Johan \ wrote:
>
> > I'm setting up qmail on my machine (as you might know by my previous
> > messages =).
> >
> > Anyone, I have just discovered that QMail for some reason is runnning as
> > some of my shell-users, and not the users I set up in the installation.
> >
> > I'm quite confused, and would really like some help on how to solve this
> > problem.
>
> I had similar problem a week ago. Procedure was as follows:
>
> 1. I compiled and installed qmail 1.03 as described in docs.
> 2. For some reason I reinstalled my Linux box (the partition with
> compiled qmail package remained untouched).
> 3. I added apropriate qmail users and groups to the system as
> described in docs.
> 4. I did 'make install' on precompiled package. qmail installed
> without any problems.
>
> I observed that files in qmail directory tree were owned by "strange"
> users and groups. It is an effect of assigning diferrent names to
> uids and gids used by qmail in my system before reinstallation. It
> seems that qmail doesn't check for their validity after its
> compilation is completed.
>
> I understand the problem: I did not obey the installation procedure.
make setup check should take care of all that.
Greetz, Peter.
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