From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 15:37:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 15:37:48 -0400 Received: from brussels-smtp.planetinternet.be ([195.95.34.12]:27402 "EHLO firebird.planetinternet.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 15:37:47 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 21:38:13 +0200 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.5.8 pre3 chown problem Message-ID: <20020414193813.GA668@gouv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Leopold Gouverneur Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I tried 2.5.8 pre3 and exim stopped working! I found the problem was that logrotate is unable to change exim's mainlog owner from root to mail. So i made a little test: gouv:~# touch junk gouv:~# ls -l junk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 avr 14 21:30 junk gouv:~# chown mail.adm junk gouv:~# echo $? 0 gouv:~# ls -l junk -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 0 avr 14 21:30 junk gouv:~# chown --version chown (fileutils) 4.1 Écrit par David MacKenzie. gouv:~# bash --version GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. file system is ext 2 I reverted to 2.5.7 and everyting worked as expected