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Re: Little Exim question (permission to create lockfile...)



* (tom@abwaerts.be)[20040324 05:44]:
> Hey,
>
> I'm not sure anymore why I needed to (have had to rearrange quite a few 
> things), but I've been fiddling with KMail's lockfile settings. And 
> with my system mailbox, too. :-/ I'm left with one little problem: Exim 
> doesn't have permission to create a lockfile in /var/mail/tom, which 
> causes messages to get stuck in the queue.
>
> So basically, I just wondered what lockfile I should allow KMail to 
> create (procmail, dotlock, dotlock privileged, FNCTL, or none) and what 
> permissions the spoolfile in /var/mail should be set to, so that Exim 
> can drop a lock...

/var/mail should be root:daemon 2775
/var/mail/$USER should be $USER:mail 660

good times,
Vineet

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