Exim file permission problem perhaps
Hello,
I have been having some problems with emails and exim on a Woody
system. When I look at the ...exim/mainlog I see messages:-
failed to open database lock file
/var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: Permission denied
(euid=8 egid=8)
I looked at the /var/spool/exim/db/ directory, and saw that the files
wait-remote_smtp.lockfile and wait-remote_smtp were owner and group
root. When I compare them with another system that is not giving
problems I see that these files are user and group mail.
AKAIK I have not changed the owner of these files myself in the
past. I have now changed them to mail:mail on the suspect system, and
am waiting to see if problems change. Can anyone say who should own
these files, and suggest which package has given them the wrong owners
(if they were wrong)?
Dave
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Dave Whiteley
d.l.whiteley@ee.leeds.ac.uk
Phone 044 (0)113 2332059
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
The University of Leeds. Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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