On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:59:33 +0100, "V. T. Mueller" wrote:
> > Now there is another, much uglier problem - the lockfiles. It seems
> > that exim uses already the UID of the recipient for creating a
> > lockfile, well I don't know exactly (their lifetime is not that long
> > :).
> You said in followup mail that your /var/mail permissions are 775. This
> is good. However, what you _didn't_ tell us is what the _ownerships_ on
> that dir are.
Bummer!
I'm sorry. It's owned by bin:mail .
> All you really need to be sure of is that your exim_group option in
> Exim's configure file is set to the group that owns /var/mail. Once
> that's sorted, lockfiles can be created through group write permission,
> regardless of the UID under which delivery takes place.
Grrr. Of course. The cause was that when I installed 2.05 I only did
append my config at the end of the new default config because a quick
glimpse through it made me think there were no changes.
So it seems I have to say sorry for "beaucoup de bruit pour rien"...
;)
Volker
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