On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 11:07:19AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > I believe that it would be good to have a designated GID for use in mail > delivery programs. > > It seems that some programs have hard-coded GID numbers in their code (such as > mailman). So the current situation is that you may have to change the GID > used by your mail server, and if you have two such programs compiled with > different GID's then you have to recompile one of them (or write a SETGID > wrapper). > > Having a designated default GID for mail delivery processes would solve this. Maybe I did not fully understand what you mean, but what about kurth@debian:~$ cat /etc/group|grep mail mail:x:8: kurth@debian:~ Greetings, Oliver -- debian/rules http://zork.net/~nick/srom/
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