On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Doing an ls -l of the /var/spool/exim/db directory, I see:
>
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 4096 Apr 19 06:25 retry
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Apr 19 06:25 retry.lockfile
> -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 16384 Apr 24 12:17 wait-remote_smtp
> -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 0 Apr 22 12:01 wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
>
>
> Are the retry* files supposed to be owned by root/root, or should they
> be mail/mail?
If mail/mail is your Exim user/group, then they should be mail/mail.
> Is that where the problem lies? I know I never chown'd
> any of these files manually. Anyone know what could have happened?
Mysterious.
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