Alex Samad wrote:
for some reason when i do a ps -ef | grep exim I always get back that exim is running as uid = 102, not a name but a numerical. Whilst trying to investigate this I noticed there was no location to set the uid. I just thought that this was rather strange.
I read somewhere that this was documented behaviour of ps when username >= 8 characters. My ps function is
ps axo user:12,pid,vsz,rss,cputime,args which gives 12 chars for the user field.Read the section in http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4UserFAQ which talks about why the username Debian-exim was chosen. You might want to hold off changing the UID as it is used by the Debian scripts.
Cheers....j -- Jamin @ Home @ Chester UK