Hello, I found this message between Chad and Philip on DejaNews and
I'm having the same problem. It has helped to solve my problem
because i now know why it is not working. However, when it is trying
to write the lock hitching file to my /var/spool/mail directory, it is
trying to write it as the user zzz, however, only root and mail have
r/w access to the /var/spool/mail directory .. well, to create a new
file anyways. so there's a file
rw-rw---- zzz mail 0 somedate zzz
but the perms for /var/spool/mail are
rwxrwx--- root mail 0 somedate mail
how do i go about solving this problem so zzz can write a lock
hitching file (which I have no clue what it does) .. to the
/var/spool/mail directory? =)
thank you very much!!!!
D
> > 1996-10-20 10:12:13 0vF0U1-0000ih-00 <= root@??? U=root
P=local S=421
> > 1996-10-20 10:12:13 0vF0U1-0000ih-00 == axb@???
T=local_delivery defer (
> > 13): Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post
>
> This is odd. It is failing to create the lock file. This suggests
that
> for some reason it isn't root at the right time, or that when it
changed
> uid to the user, the user can't write to the appropriate directory.
>
> Please try running exim with the -d9 option and have a look at the
trace
> output. It should state which uid it is setting when attempting to
do a
> local delivery.
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