Re: [Hampshire] wierd group issue

2010-03-18 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:43:33 + (+), Michael-John Turner wrote: > How are you calling lurker? /etc/aliases contains: lurker-hants: |/usr/bin/lurker-index -l hampshire -m (well it contains a wrapper ATM so that I can debug it :-)) > I've not used Exim in nigh on ten years, but a cursor

Re: [Hampshire] wierd group issue

2010-03-16 Thread Michael-John Turner
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:29:16PM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > How on earth is it dropping those other groups? The only thing I can > think of is that exim's use of setgid/setpgid is doing it. I'll > certainly admit that reading those manpages can get your head in a > twist so I wondered if a

Re: [Hampshire] wierd group issue

2010-03-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
a weird one too. Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux infrastructure consultancy Puppet, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk ---

[Hampshire] wierd group issue

2010-03-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I've just been banging my head against lurker (mailing list program we use on hantslug) as it had stopped working. I've diagnosed what's wrong, but have very little clue as to _why_. The box runs exim as a mailserver and that runs as the Debian-exim user: $ id Debian-exim uid=102(Debian-exim) gi