Hi all,
I did an update of my system yesterday ("yum update")and it appears something went wrong (or at least in an unexpected way). I need your help to get things running again
A lot of the executables (the ones that were updated I presume) now belong to the username that I logged onto the system (harro.harro) with instead of root.root or whatever they should be!
One problem I encountered is that exim returned errors that it could not change GID/UID. The forums say to change the SUID bit, which I did. The errors disappear but still no mail is delivered or sent.
So question 1) What user/group should /usr/src/exim belong to?
2) why does no mail come in after I did:
3) how can I find out what the correct ownership should be for the files that now belong to harro.harro ??
4) how is is possible this happened? Surely I cannot run "yum update" as a normal user and if I run it as root how can it assume another user's identity??
Thank you for any thoughts you have on this matter!
Harro
<edited> Continuing my search for the cause and for which files have been changed I noticed that Yum should NOT have touched the EXIM file since it is in the excludes list in yum.conf!! So something else changed it, or yum ignored part of the ignore list.... </edit>
I did an update of my system yesterday ("yum update")and it appears something went wrong (or at least in an unexpected way). I need your help to get things running again
A lot of the executables (the ones that were updated I presume) now belong to the username that I logged onto the system (harro.harro) with instead of root.root or whatever they should be!
One problem I encountered is that exim returned errors that it could not change GID/UID. The forums say to change the SUID bit, which I did. The errors disappear but still no mail is delivered or sent.
So question 1) What user/group should /usr/src/exim belong to?
2) why does no mail come in after I did:
Code:
chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/exim3) how can I find out what the correct ownership should be for the files that now belong to harro.harro ??
4) how is is possible this happened? Surely I cannot run "yum update" as a normal user and if I run it as root how can it assume another user's identity??
Thank you for any thoughts you have on this matter!
Harro
<edited> Continuing my search for the cause and for which files have been changed I noticed that Yum should NOT have touched the EXIM file since it is in the excludes list in yum.conf!! So something else changed it, or yum ignored part of the ignore list.... </edit>
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