Re: [EXIM] question about EXIM_UID and GID

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Author: Pollywog
Date:  
To: Richard Welty
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] question about EXIM_UID and GID

On 02-Feb-99 Richard Welty wrote:
> At 10:24 AM 2/2/99 -0800, Pollywog wrote:
>>1999-02-02 10:09:22 107kGG-0006X7-00 Cannot open main log file
>>"/var/log/exim/mainlog": Permission denied: euid=8 egid=12
>>exim: could not open panic log: aborting
>>exim: original error was: 1999-02-02 10:09:22 107kGG-0006X7-00 Cannot open
> main
>>log file "/var/log/exim/mainlog": Permission denied: euid=8 egid=12
>
> maybe i'm being simple minded, but have you investigated the
> ownership/permissions on /var/log/exim/mainlog, and on the directories in
> the path?

I came to the same conclusion, and you are correct. All fixed now. I made a
new log directory just for Exim.

thanks

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Andrew

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