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Re: smartlist and exim uid-trouble



Matthias Czapla wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I just installed smartlist and did was the file
> /usr/share/doc/smartlist/QuickStart suggests. however, sending a message
> to the list locally only generates this in /var/log/exim/paniclog:
> 
> 2002-08-19 20:53:01 17grZD-00012l-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor
> the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of
> |/var/list/.bin/flist test-request
> 
> and the message keeps sitting in exims input spool. googling for "smartlist
> exim \"Neither the system_aliases\"" only gave three results from which I get
> the feeling theres some configuration with (g)uids required. because of the
> lack of a proper understanding of the relationships between the various
> system user accounts debian provides, I dont want to fiddle with permissions
> and stuff (I could imagine making everything under /var/list writable by
> group mail...). So please can anyone tell me what to change in the
> configuration to make things work. Pretty much everything is in the default
> state after installation. Thank you.

Is this a bug to report and if so against which of the two packages (exim and
smartlist) should it be filed?

Gruß
lal



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