Happy days...
A simple "chmod mail mainlog" command fixed it back to the right group.
Thanks Ivan for helping out on this (and Bart for also responding -it's a
Debian box), now just have to recover the lost day's mail, cool cool cool.
:)
-Karlski
-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan Beveridge
To: 'exim-users@???'
Sent: 6/25/2001 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Socket Bind Error/ Permission Denied (read the archive)
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:19:45AM -0700, Karl Balsmeier wrote:
> I read the archive and killed all the extra mail processes, even
commented
> all mail services out of inetd.conf, but i'm still getting the
permission
> denied error when I try to test send. (from root or others)
>
> 2001-06-24 21:40:05 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any) failed:
> Address already in use: waiting before trying again.
This is to do with a server trying to start up, and failing to bind to
the
SMTP port of the relevant IP address. This happened yesterday (so maybe
is
a red herring). If it is not, check what is connecting to the port with
lsof.
> 2001-06-25 07:58:12 15EXoa-0003ed-00 Cannot open main log file
> "/var/log/exim/mainlog": Permission denied: euid=8 egid=8
Check permissions on the logfile and directory.
> These errors indicate another MTA, am I on the right track here, I see
> sendmail processes popping, am I on the right track as far as trying
to
> eliminate these so exim can function, or is this error due to
something
> else?
The former points to another MTA running (use lsof to confirm which
process - eg lsof -i tcp@10.0.3.4) - the fact that you saw sendmail
running
at a point in time does not mean it is running as a daemon (but may be a
good pointer ;)
The latter points to a permission problem (user doesn't have read/write
access to the logfile / directory structure).
Cheers
Ivan
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