Fred,
Besides your setup with that symbolic link appears to be a bit unorthodox
to me, have you tried to add x bits to /usr/local yet? It still depends on
what your /eximlogs is set to, but I guess a chmod go+x /usr/local would
already help.
hth,
Volker
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Fred Backman wrote:
> I've attached a plaintext file w/output (sorry if this is a hassle). Also notice that disk space is ok on all partitions.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Phil Pennock <pdp@???>
> To: Fred Backman <fred@???>
> CC: exim-users@???
> Sent: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 18:17:33 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
> Subject: Re: [Exim] urgent - problems w/log file permissions
>
> > On 2000-09-27 at 18:09 +0100, Fred Backman gifted us with:
> > > Cannot open main log file "/usr/local/exim/logs/mainlog": Permission denied: euid=15 guid=15
> > >
> > > I've checked about 119 times that the permissions on the log file is ok, ie rw permissions by user exim (uid 15).
> > >
> > > Nothing has been changed on the machine, so what is going on???
> >
> > What's the result of: ls -ld /usr /usr/local /usr/local/exim /usr/local/exim/logs
> > ?
> > --
> > Normally <Phil.Pennock@???>, which should still work.
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