What ever the case, make sure that your local mailboxes have their root owned by
whichever user exim is running under.
For example:
I run exim as exim and so I did:
chmod exim:exim /etc/virtual
Giving exim ownership of the spool directory for all virtual domains. check your
configure file to determine the spool directory. For you, change exim to mail.!
hope that works.
eltonic40
Jesus is Lord Always!
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> Yesterday, I noticed some world writable files in my /usr/local/src directory
> on my linux box, so I went to get rid of them with a chmod -R go-rwx
> ./src, but
> I accidentally hit enter after the dot. :( Well, I quickly hit
> ctrl-break, but
> some damage had already been done. Several of the directories in /usr/local
> had their permissions reset. Anyway.. I tried to set them to what I thought
> looked right.. I gave o+rx to bin/ etc/ and exim-3.22/ but just today, I
> noticed that exim wasn't working properly.
>
> It is receiving mail, but not delivering it to local mailboxes.. The
> paniclog
> is filling with "exec of exim " ["-q" or "-Mc"] " failed: Permission denied",
> and I am too inexperienced in the linux administration world to know why.
> ::sigh:: I tried running an exim -q as root and it runs fine, but I
> know that
> I compiled exim to run under the user mail as a daemon. Can someone tell me
> what permissions/ownership the executables and config files need?
> Just a quick
> run down:
>
> #which exim
> /usr/local/sbin/exim
>
> #exim -bP exim_path
> exim_path = /usr/local/exim-3.22/bin/exim
>
> There is a simlink in /usr/local called exim/ that points to
> /usr/local/exim-3.22/
>
> The main config file is in
> /usr/local/etc/exim/exim.conf
>
> The ownership of all of these files is root.root. I didn't think this was a
> problem because I didn't screw that up, only the permissions.
>
> I really appreciate your assistance..
> -- Daniel Einspanjer, daniel@??? on 09/28/2001
>
>
>
>
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