On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Philip Crewdson wrote:
> Hi anyone,
>
> I'm running exim 1.58 on FreeBSD (2.1.5 release), and it's working fine,
> except it won't deliver to users on the machine it's running on. The
> mainlog records this entry for local-user-to-local-user attempts:
>
> 1996-11-27 19:57:08 0vSq6W-0007mL-00 <= philip@??? U=philip
> P=local S=463
> 1996-11-27 19:57:08 0vSq6W-0007mL-00 == paul@???
> T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: creating lock file hitching
> post
>
> and this for root-to-local-user:
>
> 1996-11-27 20:00:08 0vSq9Q-0007mZ-00 <= root@??? U=root P=local S=460
> 1996-11-27 20:00:08 0vSq9Q-0007mZ-00 == paul@???
> T=local_delivery defer (-1): Retry time not yet reached
>
> This happens whether the program is compiled to run as exim or uid unset.
I had this under Linux, and my solution was to compile exim using GNU
libgdbm rather than libdb. You might like to try the same thing?
Tim.
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