Re: Problems with exim and kernel 2.2.17-pre6?

[Dan Nguyen <nguyend7@cse.msu.edu>]

You should upgrade to 2.2.17-pre12 and see if this problem still
exists.  

On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:40:08AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> I've just found a lovely little problem. Exim v3.12-10 and kernel
> 2.2.17-pre6 appear to not like each other. Exim stops accepting mail
> from local processes with the error:
> 
> Message abandoned: Input read error (Permission denied) while
> receiving message from steve
> 
> I went through checking everything on the system - I'd just done a
> potato upgrade and everything else seemed fine. As a last resort I
> fell back to the older 2.2.14 kernel I had been using previously, and
> then all started working again. I know that 2.2.16+ has the
> permissions fix in - is exim relying on broken kernel behaviour, I
> wonder?

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