I have the same problem with different versions of exim
(3.14,3.15,3.16). I can't local delivery emails to the spool directory
without setting the spool to 777. the exim bin is setuid root, but that
doesn't change things.
The error message is as follows:
== gietl@??? T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied:
creating lock file hitching post
/var/spool/mail/gietl.lock.d3.x-mailer.de.398ee725.00004ecf
if i change the spool to 777 it works. i have no nfs mounts anywhere in
the systems.
any ideas?
andreas
Ian Southam wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 05:27:43PM +0100 Andre Grueneberg wrote :
>
> > user. I'm using Exim 3.16 compiled with EXIM_UID=0, EXIM_GID=101.
> > Do I have to make the spool/input world writable?
> > On another system (still running Exim 3.14, I didn't upgrade yet), I'm running
>
> It maybe that the binary is not suid 0 but ...
>
> I saw exactly the same thing when I attempted to upgrade to 3.16 on one of our
> servers over the weekend.
>
> The exim binary was setuid and, I even recompiled setting the EXIM_UID=0 (which
> I have never had to do before) all to no avail. Setting the spool directories
> 777, is not an option for me.
>
> I solved it in the end.
>
> It turns out that it is *not* a permissions as such but is caused by my input
> and db directories being nfs mounted. An error I get in 3.16 but don't get in
> 3.14 (I never ran 3.15). exim just wouldn't write the input files over nfs.
>
> All I did was to move these dirs (input and db) to local files (which is a
> pain in the kneck) and leave the mailboxes nfs mounted and all works perfectly
> - no permissions errors .... go figure!
>
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> Ian
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