Re: [Exim] Heavy traffic

From logfile:

2001-05-31 15:50:50 155YSU-0005L1-02 failed to open DB file
/var/spool/exim/db/retry: Permission denied (euid=80 egid=80)

From dir:
-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 exim     exim         4096 May 30 11:51 retry
-rw-r-----    1 exim     exim            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

From passwd:
exim:x:80:80:Exim:/usr/exim:/bin/sh

From group:
exim:x:80:

Something doesn't seem right....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew D" <awd@???>
To: "Sam Michaels" <swampgas@???>; <exim-users@???>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Heavy traffic


> ----- Original Message -----
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 3:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Heavy traffic
>
>

> > 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
> bingo  shutdown exim then
> chown exim.exim retry and then start again everything should be fine

>
> > 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.
> no idea, never had that problem, sorry.
>
> cya
> Andrew
>
>
>
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