exim error: cannot open files ???

["Michael D. Schleif" <mds@helices.org>]

What is with these errors every (15) minutes ???

2001-10-30 08:53:02 15yaGE-0003cv-00 Cannot open main log file
"/var/log/exim/mainlog": Permission denied: euid=8 egid=8

exim: could not open panic log - aborting: original error above


I can write to these logfiles as user mail (8:8):

Loki:~# ls -adl /var/log/exim/
drwxr-s---    2 mail     adm          4096 Oct 30 07:35 /var/log/exim/

Loki:~# ls -al /var/log/exim/mainlog
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail           26 Oct 30 08:43
/var/log/exim/mainlog

Loki:~# ls -al /var/log/exim/paniclog
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail           26 Oct 30 08:45
/var/log/exim/paniclog

Loki:~# su - mail

mail@Loki:~$ id
uid=8(mail) gid=8(mail) groups=8(mail),4(adm)

mail@Loki:~$ cat /var/log/exim/mainlog >> /var/log/exim/paniclog

mail@Loki:~$ cat /var/log/exim/paniclog >> /var/log/exim/mainlog

mail@Loki:~$ ls -al /var/log/exim/mainlog
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail           78 Oct 30 09:01
/var/log/exim/mainlog

mail@Loki:~$ ls -al /var/log/exim/paniclog
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail           52 Oct 30 09:01
/var/log/exim/paniclog

mail@Loki:~$ cd /var/log/exim/

mail@Loki:/var/log/exim$ ls -al
total 60
drwxr-s---    2 mail     adm          4096 Oct 30 07:35 .
drwxr-x---    9 root     adm          4096 Oct 30 07:39 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail           78 Oct 30 09:01 mainlog
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail         2555 Oct 29 12:38 mainlog.0
-rw-r-----    1 mail     mail         1491 Oct 29 07:23 mainlog.1.gz
-rw-r-----    1 mail     mail          704 Oct 28 07:23 mainlog.2.gz
-rw-r-----    1 mail     mail         1177 Oct 27 07:23 mainlog.3.gz
-rw-r-----    1 mail     mail         1401 Oct 26 07:23 mainlog.4.gz
-rw-r-----    1 mail     mail         1232 Oct 25 07:23 mainlog.5.gz
-rw-r-----    1 mail     mail         1206 Oct 24 07:23 mainlog.6.gz
-rw-r-----    1 mail     mail         1211 Oct 23 07:23 mainlog.7.gz
-rw-r-----    1 mail     mail         1192 Oct 22 07:23 mainlog.8.gz
-rw-r-----    1 mail     mail         1162 Oct 21 07:23 mainlog.9.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 mail     mail           52 Oct 30 09:01 paniclog
-rw-r-----    1 mail     mail          148 Jun 14 00:15 paniclog.0


What do you think?

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