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Re: mail group/exim starting difficulties



On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 jbmaxson@surfglobal.net wrote:
> At some point in the past, the "mail" entry in my /etc/group file was
> deleted.  Since then I've had some issues, as you could guess...the
> big one being that I can't start exim...I get:
>
> Starting MTA: 2003-08-14 22:33:50 Exim configuration error
>   group mail, referred to in line 216, was not found
>
> However, I have manually gone in and added it, as seen here (list
> continues for a bit). It doesn't seem to "take":
>
> chewie:/home/jbmaxson# cat /etc/group
> mail:*:100:jbmaxson,root
> root:*:0:root
> games:x:102:
> pppusers:*:103:jbmaxson
> exim:*:104:jbmaxson

on this (sid) box:
--- /etc/group ---
mail:x:8:
---

with no "exim" group

~$ dlocate -l exim|grep "ii "
ii  exim           3.36-7         An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)

Are you aware of "man grpconv" ?
(assuming you use shadow password and group files)


- Bruce



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