Philip and Graeme,
Thank you for the help.
It's working now .. I've put some comments below:
Steve
> -----Original Message-----
>
> On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Stephen Nurse wrote:
>
> > 1998-08-10 16:55:32 0z5y2W-0000B8-00 == xxxx@???
> > <xxxx@???> D=userforward defer (-1): failed to open
> > /home/xxxx/.forward (userforward director): Permission
> denied (euid=1000
> > egid=101)
>
> What are the permissions on /home/xxxx/.forward? What is the euid and
> egid for user xxxx?
Actually this is the same for all users : There are no .forward files.
>
> What are the permissions on that file? What have you set as Exim's
> uid/gid, if anything? (Find out by "exim -bP exim_uid exim_gid".)
>
Exim's UID is 1000 and the GID is 101. The above command doesn't work:
mgate1:/home# exim -bP exim_uid exim_gid
exim_uid is not a known option
exim_gid is not a known option
exim -bP gives all the info, but not the IDs ...
> Have you remembered to make exim setuid root?
>
Bingo! Exim was upgraded to 2.02 and by the looks of it, exim.O was setuid
root, but the new exim didn't get set, or was changed. This fixed things
nicely.
Graeme:
Just FYI
> Let me know:
>
> (a) what the rights are on that user's .forward (and directory it's in)
> (b) do a find . -print|grep 0z5xwE from / and see if that file has been
> accidentally prefixed with a slash.
There are no .forward's defined.
It waen't prefixed - looks like a corrupted message in the directory. Why
exim stuck a // on it I'll never know. As a further bit of info, in
eximon, trying to read it, force delivery and remove it did not work for
any option. I went into the directory, moved the single file out (I
thought there sould have been 2 files) refreshed eximon (update) and the
errors disappeared from the log.
Thanks again (and very much) for all you help - It is appreciated.
Steve
Thanks,
Steve
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