Exim runs on exim/exim (80/80) and here is the tree of permissions:
in /var/spool:
drwxr-x--- 5 exim exim 1024 May 31 12:29 exim
in /var/spool/exim:
drwxr-x--- 2 exim exim 1024 May 31 08:10 db
-rw-r--r-- 1 exim exim 6 May 31 12:22 exim-daemon.pid
-rw-r----- 1 exim exim 445 May 31 12:29 exim-process.info
drwxr-x--- 33 exim exim 51200 May 31 12:28 input
drwxr-x--- 33 exim exim 22528 May 31 12:28 msglog
in /var/spool/exim/db:
-rw-r----- 1 exim exim 0 May 31 08:10 reject
-rw-r----- 1 exim exim 0 May 31 08:10 reject.lockfile
-rw-r----- 1 root root 4096 May 30 11:51 retry
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 30 11:51 retry.lockfile
-rw-r----- 1 exim exim 0 May 30 12:08 wait-remote_smtp
-rw-r----- 1 exim exim 0 May 30 12:08
wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
I don't know why retry has root/root permissions...this morning I killed
exim, deleted everything in the dir, and restarted it....exim must have made
it those permissions.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew D" <awd@???>
To: "Sam Michaels" <swampgas@???>; <exim-users@???>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Heavy traffic
> ----- Original Message -----
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 2:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Heavy traffic
>
>
> > I guess that would help, wouldn't it? :)
> just a tad yes :)
> >
> > Here's a few extracted lines (there's too many of them for me to paste
the
> > entire log):
> > --snip--
> > 2001-05-31 12:27:54 155VIg-00051X-01 failed to open database lock file
> /var
> > /spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=80 egid=80)
> This is your problem, I assume euid is ur exim user, does that uid have
> read/write permissions to those files/dirs? or any parent dirs?
>
> >
> > I think this one is irrelevant:
> > --snip--
> > 2001-05-31 12:27:57 155VIi-00051X-05 SMTP error from remote mailer afte
> > r initial connection: host mail.x.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: 421 x.x.com:
Too
> > many concurrent SMTP connections; please try again later.
> > --snip--
> not really it means ur emails will be temp rejected coz ur making to many
> connections to the server, docs show how to change this.
>
> > Hundreds of those lines...also received this in the panic log, but I
don't
> > think it's related (it happened earlier on in the day and it happens
every
> > once in awhile):
> > --snip--
> > 2001-05-31 08:12:31 155RJW-00046q-09 TCP service "smtp" not found
> go into /etc/services or where ever it is located on ur box and add a line
> that says
> smtp 25/tcp mail
>
> HTH
> cya
> Andrew
>
>
>
> --
> A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
>
>
