On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:01:21PM -0800, Jack Pistachio wrote: > yes, thanks. err should have probably skimmed man exim > first. mainlog gave the following info: > > 18r7I2-0000A7-00 <= root@AMDKing U=root P=local S=1533 > 18r7I2-0000A7-00 failed to open database lock file > /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: Permission denied > (euid=8 egid=8) [...] > and the message was never sent. root didn't even have > permissions to access this file?!? > anyhow, I changed the permissions in exim/db to: > /var/spool/exim/db# ls -l > total 8 > -rw-rw-rw- 1 mail mail 4096 Aug 3 2002 > retry > -rw-rw-rw- 1 mail mail 0 Aug 3 2002 > retry.lockfile > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4096 Aug 3 2002 > wait-remote_smtp > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Aug 3 2002 > wait-remote_smtp.lockfile Everything under /var/spool/exim (including that top-level directory) should have UID and GID mail. Write permissions should be only for user, and read permissions for user and group. (dirs: 750, files: 640) Try to only 'chmod' and 'chown' existing files. AFAIK I had similar problem year ago, and that was something about the first run (creation of this files), and after that, it started to work, but I can be mistaken. Bye. -- +----------------------------------+ | Martin Kacerovsky | | e-mail : wizard(AT)matfyz(DOT)cz | | home : http://wizard.matfyz.cz | +----------------------------------+
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