Exim doesn't see group and user

Demontager · #1 July 21st, 2012, 22:37

Can't understand why Exim unable to start claiming that group "mail" and user "mailnull "not exist:

Code:

sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim start
Starting exim.
2012-07-21 23:23:47 Exim configuration error in line 113 of /usr/local/etc/exim/configure:
  user mail exim_group = mail was not found
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim: WARNING: failed to start exim

ok, trying to add missed goup

Code:

pw groupadd mail
pw: group name `mail' already exists

Part of exim's config:

Code:

trusted_users = www

qualify_domain = mx.mydomain.com

local_interfaces = 127.0.0.1 : 78.78.78.78

allow_domain_literals = false

#Line 113 below
exim_user = mailnull exim_group = mail

never_users = root

Also passwd:

Code:

cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 | grep -v \#
root
toor
daemon
operator
bin
tty
kmem
games
news
man
sshd
smmsp
mailnull
bind
proxy
_pflogd
_dhcp
uucp
pop
www
hast
nobody
_pma
mysql
ftp
clamav
mail

Permissions of /etc/group and /etc/passwd are set to 644 by default.

Demontager · #2 July 22nd, 2012, 13:18

Found problem. I put line 113 in on line, but should be:

Code:

#Line 113 below
exim_user = mailnull 
exim_group = mail

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