On 27 Apr 2000, Oliver Seidel wrote:
> I have produced a local system with a rather experimental setup: I use
> LDAP for authentication/Exim/IMAP and now exim seems to be acting up.
> I repeatedly got messages of the form
>
> 2000-04-26 22:00:02 12kXyc-0002H4-00 Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//12kXyc-0002H4-00-D: Keine Berechtigung
> 2000-04-26 22:00:02 12kXyc-0002H4-00 Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//12kXyc-0002H4-00-D: Keine Berechtigung
> 2000-04-26 22:00:02 12kXyc-0002H4-00 Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//12kXyc-0002H4-00-D: Keine Berechtigung
>
> where "keine Berechtigung" means something like "no permission". I am
> using exim version 3.13.
>
> - Does this look obvious to anybody?
Is Exim correctly set up as setuid root? What are the permissions on
/var/spool/exim/input and higher level directories?
> - Is the "...input//12..." correct?
Yes.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
