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From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.6 breaks kmail (nfs related?)
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Hi, Andreas Amann wrote:

> (I also tried "strace -f", but apparently exim does not like to be traced?)

Exim's setuid. Tracing setuid programs generally is fraught with peril,
especially if that program changes uids, drops privileges and then
re-execs itself (as exim does, IIRC). :-/

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Matthias Urlichs