Re: Exim file permission problem perhaps
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:52:01 +0100
"Dave Whiteley" <eendlw@eenlnx4.leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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)?
>
I had the same problem after upgrading exim to the last version and fixed it just like you did. After that I noticed that there is already a bug filed, so didn't bother to dig in it any deeper... But now i did, just looked in the postinst script and noticed that it 'upgrades' the databases to version Berkley DB 3 with db3_upgrade. Maybe that's got something to do with it?
Tim
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